After testing out the 20 unreciprocated message limit, MyBlogLog continue its fight against spamming. MyBlogLog has rolled out two major changes over the last couple of days.
The first one is displaying community members by relevance. The members on the member list were displayed according to the date they joined a blog. Now, it is determined by an algorithm base on relevance. The more relevant the member is to your blog, the higher he would appear on the page.
The ranking would change over time; relevant members will go higher eventually. Right now, MG, Gregg, Chris, Greg Laden and Atul are the members that represent MathPoints the most. This is definitely an interesting change; remember to check out their blogs too!
The second MBL change was cutting out all the animated gif avatar and community images. According to MBL, they have received lots of complaints from users on the distraction that these images created. I believe most of us know what images they are referring to, right?
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Cleaning up MyBlogLog
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Wow, great stuff. How do they determine this any idea? You're #2 on mine as well!
Hi Andy thanks for referring my name friend , yes you are right even i have seen your avatar most of the time in my latest blog visitors list .
Honestly, I don't have much clue how they determine the ranking. But it looks like they take linking and # of visits into account.
4 out of the top 5 members covered technology in some sort. Greg's blog covers science, but I think he visits my blog quite often.
That's interesting. I didn't know they changed all that. I'm still need to get more familiar and comfortable with mybloglog :D
Andy why don't you try technorati favorite exchange experiment , it will give you more exposer , my ranking have been improved , checkout this http://digitalmail.blogspot.com/2007/04/technorati-favorites-exchange.html
How important is an algorithmic calculation for neighborhood relevance?
Is it perhaps more important to provide a community with more tools that facilitate communication. And based on communcation let members of a community decide who is the most "relevant"?
For example, at BlogCatalog we just released a new free-form type forums tool. Based on 2 days of use it seems to have filled a real need for easier and more effective communication among bloggers.
For reference the community is located http://www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/ as we have yet to officially announce its release.
I'd love feedback on this issue as we are considering "granulating" (if that's the correct usage) forums to the neighborhood levels to facilitate even more selective conversations among bloggers.
@antony - I think the algorithmic calculation and communication tools are both important.
An automated algorithm probably isn't perfect but it would show us what the human eyes can't see ;)
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