I read this post about starting a new wine business in Napa, and was super impressed by its quality: in depth, well thought out, with experience to back it up.
Unsurprisingly, it has a ton of Likes. And that got me thinking:
Is there any Discourse feature that collects the best posts into a “highlight reel” that members can browse so that they don’t miss the best content? This could be a manual process that the mods manage, but it would probably be easier to automatically collect all posts that have over X likes.
Maybe this already exists and I just missed it. If not, please consider this a low-priority feature request.
Great idea, and it’s already built in, but not for power users like you and me - for those who don’t show up much, they get a weekly ‘best threads’/‘what you missed’ type of highlight, and it’s pretty freakin’ cool. I get one because of a spare account I have for programming stuff, testing ads, whatever, and each time I find the system picks the perfect threads that SHOULD draw people back in
As for making this part of the forum for everybody, I’ll look into it, but guessing this is what ‘Top’ threads is used for - those threads that have good discourse (for lack of a better term) and, most often, got there rather quickly, which is shown in the color of the reply count (orange or red is ‘hot’)
Top Threads is close, but what I really want are top individual posts, rather than threads. Basically I don’t want to have to crawl through entire threads to find the needle the haystack. But I do understand that you are limited by the features and plugins that are offered. Thanks!
How would a determination be made on ‘top posts’, within threads? Are not the other posts in the thread rather crucial to understanding the impact of one particular post within the thread itself?
As for the mechanics, I was think like posts that have 20 or more likes. (Or some other number.)
Context is important, but if a post gets 20 likes, there’s probably something special about that particular post that makes it stand out from the crowd and makes it worth reading. And then if that post interests me enough, I can always scroll up to read the context and see if the thread is of interest overall.
For example. The post that started this whole train of thought now has over 50 likes. If you just read that post by itself, it’s still an interesting post. Sure there is interesting context upthread, but that post is worth reading even if you couldn’t wade through the other 150 posts in the thread.
