[Zentradi]

How dose the "Featured Content" need feed work? The the smal thing with pictures on top? I thougt it was some kind if algoritm with popular threads and that ther was a need of pictures. But now I noticed 4 "eternal crusade" post by a new user and no pictures, also ther was no comments and not that many views of the thread.

On a side not I noticed that no of my own pictures from threads have show up in the "featured content" recently.

Thanks for the help clearing this up, I'm just curious.

 

[Lord Borak]

I have no idea what this is but it might be a legitimate Gaming thread thing. Having it 4 times in featured is excessive though so I have removed the image from the featured thing.

 

[Zentradi]

Well not only me that find it strange at least...

 

[Lord Borak]

Honestly, I have no idea how the featured thing works or selects the content. Sometimes it misses stuff out and sometimes it picks up things like smilies. I'm not sure how i'd go about featuring something though.

 

[CaptainSarathai]

As moderators, we can manually remove threads from the features.
Additionally, we can "manually feature" a thread, although I doubt that's what is going on. In my experience, the pics across the top of the forum are pulled in because they are the most recent pictures posted to the site. This can be smilies, for some reason - I'm not entirely sure why. Working from the assumption that the 'featured bar' is intended for photos, I'll remove those "smilie threads". I've even been known to remove my own battlereport threads since they're just graphics rather than proper photos of minis.
Really, the system is just confusing and possibly broken. The mods just have to stay on top of it. Like most stuff around here...

 

[VS_Admin]

It can also be filtered based on forums you subscribe to. I'm looking at how it pulls in general though.

Kyle

 

[Zentradi]

Cool, I'm interested to know more about this.