Board Thread:Setting Things Up/@comment-4023106-20130624230635/@comment-4023106-20130731164810

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On ratings: I'm still not sure what we're going to do with that. I love the idea of having a rating system, but it really seems like our options are limited. What I'd really hope for would be something like this, but it doesn't seem as though that can be implemented on a wikia wiki. AjaxPoll would be fine, I think, except that it doesn't average out ratings (as far as I can tell) and so I don't know how a definitive "top" list could be taken from those votes. I guess we'd have to come up with some kind of ... oh man, math is really not my thing and it's about to show horribly ... I guess -- like a weighted average? Is that what it's called? Like we'd have to decide whether to favor number of votes over vote rating or vice versa, and whether a fic with one 1/5 and one 5/5 would be better or worse than a fic with one 3/5... oh god math kill me now. Whatever. Hopefully all you people are more math-literate than me and can sort that shit out? :p

Most-linked pages in a category... I'm not sure about that. I've never looked into it that much, but it does sound like it'd be a good idea. We fiddled about with Top 10 lists a bit, but I don't think they would work, since they're not automatically generated, and you can only vote for one fic in an entire list. Depending on how many people actually want to use this place to make/keep rec lists, it might be feasible to just manually create and update most-linked fics manually (although that would also depend on which/how many categories we create lists for).

We considered adding more pairings to the ficbox, but I guess it just never happened. I think it'd be fine if we just wend ahead and did that, and added in another for characters, too. If we choose to modify the ficbox at all, it'd be best to do it all in one go, and soon -- because we'll have to manually go through every already-existing fic and update them. I think 2 pairings and 3 characters should be the cutoff, though; I don't think there are many fics that would be significantly misrepresented if a fourth main character got cut off. Maybe Trio+Ginny fics, but as they're often H/G-R/Hr, anyway, then someone would typically be included in the secondary pairing. I just don't want to make the ficbox page layout much longer than it has to be -- the notes already take up so much space! -- but just a few more lines would be fine, I think. EDIT: OK, I guess four characters would work. I was remembering the ficbox as a bit longer than it already is. I'll browse through the fics we've already got and see whether a decent number of them contain four main characters.