On 10/12/2011 08:48 PM, David Starner wrote:
Compare them and share a link to the version that worked.
I don't think there's evidence that most people do that.
What do you think they do instead? Share the link that didn't work?
What do you propose here?
That when there's multiple copies of a book, PG should list the new one first.
And what evidence do you offer to prove that the newer version is better? The user has always had the choice of sorting alphabetically, per popularity or per release date. Now you want to take one choice away from the user. Weren't you in favor of letting people always do what they wanted?
You remember "Hand Shadows to Be Thrown upon the Wall"? Yeah baby, all mine. (Okay, with a little help from Heather Martino.) Which, I will note, shows that what people want is not necessarily the "Most Important" books.
That one was popular only because a popular blog deep-linked into our servers. When I fixed the popularity algorithm to only count primary file downloads, not image downloads, it fell off the top 100 quite suddenly.
Obviously. There's no chance you're letting your biases dictate your interpretation of the evidence.
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