New Stuff on Propeller Story Pages »
Posted By tdrapeau 4 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsYou may have noticed a few differences today with a few stories posted to Propeller. We are testing out some interactive additions to story posts, as part of our ongoing relationship with AOL.com. This afternoon's AOL promotion module (pictured below) has 2 story links to Propeller, under the headline...
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Tom Drapeau is the Director of Propeller social news. Although it is the job he always dreamed he'd have, he's had a pretty ...
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populist4 months, 3 weeks ago
I think it definitely adds to the discussion...and things like polls, related groups, etc should actually increase use and pageviews too.
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Formidable4 months, 3 weeks ago
Better than some of the tricks some scouts, who shall remain unnamed, use for self promotion of biased agendas.
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Formidable4 months, 3 weeks ago
Excerpt from an email sent to me by a good member here -
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Thought you might be interested to know about a big glitch on Propeller. If you refresh a page, it counts as a "view". Refresh it enough, and it will catapult you to the home page. You don't actually have to click the link. ******** has been doing it to his own stories, and other people's that support his psychotic views. The home page has been disgustingly liberal, and that is why. Having more views can overcome a lack of props or comments. A story needs about 500 to get a 5.0 and make the home page. I watched a couple of ***'s articles the other night, he kept refreshing until he had a couple thousand so nothing else could beat him. He may have helpers, but I thought you'd like to know about his latest manipulation of the site. I don't know who came up with the new algorithm, but it's awful. I doubt the devs will do anything about it. As long as it stays the same and *** is around, liberal stories will dominate the Propeller home page.-
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populist4 months, 3 weeks ago
Formidable, I'm glad you posted that. I've posted comments in a number of articles - some even my own submissions - which have clearly been manipulated with this same technique. Not cool.
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I have been in touch with Propeller on this, and I'm confident from their response that they'll get it fixed. Sooner than later, hopefully!-
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Formidable4 months, 3 weeks ago
Good comment Populist. We the downtrodden can only hope. Sigh! Let us hope the folks that are supposed to be keeping the site tiptop are not the same ones that are friggin' with the riggin'!
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Formidable4 months, 3 weeks ago
Please Tom. Hurry - only 30 minutes left before all we see on the front page is you know who!
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tdrapeau4 months, 3 weeks ago
Hello-
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We are in the midst of fixing an issue with views - it is actually our highest priority bug.
Maybe I'm missing it - which Scouts are in question here? I just looked at the homepage and there are a bunch of different members and different viewpoints listed.
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Formidable4 months, 3 weeks ago
Tom, One more question. Would propeller dismiss a staff member whose conduct was less than professional?
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