Friday, January 23, 2009

Upgrade: ShoutOut Picture Phase II

Dear Shouters,

You can read about Previous Phase I here.

This a short and sweet update on Phase II of ShoutOut Photo Upgrade. As mentioned, this small phase is about how attractive or interesting your photos are. So we track ‘em. ShoutOut will automatically track 3 items.

  • Number of views
  • Number of Shouters who like the Photo
  • Number of comments or conversation it generates

All these 3 stats will be combined and stirred to produce how attractive a photo is. The formula is yet to be figured out (any suggestions?). For now, Phase II is about tracking these numbers. And that is what you’ll be seeing when you view each individual picture.

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So as you can see, this photo has been viewed 15 times and 2 people liked the photo.

What’s new for you?

With this Phase, you can now choose to like a photo. See the screenshots below. When you see a picture for the first time, you’ll see the first screenshot below. If you like the picture, you can do so by clicking on the ‘+ count me in’ link. What if you have already liked a picture and changed your mind? Just click on ‘- count me out’ and its done. Simple right?

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So hope you enjoy Phase I and Phase II of ShoutOut Photo Upgrades!

This is Lasker and Elise signing off for the year of Rats and wishing you a happy and relaxing Chinese New Year! Tong tong chiang people!

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3 comments received.:

AlvinC said...

maybe by percentage?
views maybe like 1%, comments 4%, viewers' favourite 5% ?
total = 10%

so.. like for this photo...
viewed 45 times = 4.5pts,
10 comments = 4pts,
3 people liked this = 1.5pts.

Total~ 4.5 + 4 + 1.5 = 10pts

Then give a ranking system lo.
0-10pts = 1 star,
10-XXpts = 2 stars,
etc.
Make it 5-6 stars.

but after some calculation being made, i found this not very perfect, when the comments, views & favourites reach a very high number (will might not happen in SO yet), then all those pts will be higher, and more stars are needed.

my 2 cents tho.

Satkuru said...

what the ...

rofl the logic damn complicated one ar, hehehe

Danielctw.com said...

logic, do a randomisation of it....