DU4 Questions & Answers

still run into problems if you don't simply display all the threads with 5 or more recs on the Greatest page, in the column with threads by descending # of recs.

Again, if you display only a set # of threads, while 5 recs is enough to qualify for the Greatest page, you're inevitably going to leave some threads off the page that have the same number of recs as the thread with the lowest # of recs on the page.

Which will mean question after question about why someone's thread with X # of recs isn't there.

I don't know what kind of system you have in place to decide automatically which threads with that lower # of recs will be allowed on the Greatest page, and which will be excluded. Even if your software will automatically sort through the threads with, say, 12 recs - I think that was the cutoff when I checked last - and bump the newer ones off the page or not allow them on, it's still going to seem unfair to DUers with the same number of recs for a post if theirs isn't appearing on the Greatest page, but an OP posted one minute earlier is.

If recs count for anything, then ALL those with 5 recs should be on the Greatest page.

And again, I'm wondering if any DUers are having trouble with the Greatest page loading slowly. I can't recall ever seeing a complaint about it on the board. I don't have particularly fast wireless, but it's always loaded as fast as any other DU page for me.

If you simply want to limit the # of threads on the Greatest page, you could always require more recs. Maybe 10 recs. But that would not only likely be unpopular, it would probably just result in people reccing threads much more often to get them closer to 10 recs.