Yandex fed bloggers soup and caviar

    Remember the episode of the wonderful old film “The White Sun of the Desert”, when the “customs” Vereshchagin is indignant:

    - I can’t eat this damned caviar anymore! - Tired of it!

    Any most delicious and delicious product, if consumed constantly and without choice every day, turns from pleasure into sophisticated torture. Spiritual food is not an exception, to which an increasing number of Runetites begin to relate regular reading of blogs. And our beloved Yandex, it seems, also overdid it, day after day treating readers in its “Blog Rating” with the same “soup” from dolboeb or “black caviar” from sholademi. I have great respect and interest in the work of authors from the first page of the rating, but their nicknames probably already remember by heart even those who have never been on the Internet, so continue to persistently show the same information to the same people every day for many months in a row in the era of Web 2.0, it’s somehow not entirely humane.

    Moreover, many world resources have long encountered this problem and have found quite effective ways to solve it. One of the simplest and most successful is the addition of the ability to rank participants not only by rating, but also by their derivative - the growth rate, which, in addition, will make it possible to diversify the service with a choice of measurement time - per day, per week, per month. This would give users the opportunity to receive more new information, sorted according to their wishes, and the service to increase the depth and time of viewing the resource, thereby increasing loyalty and solving advertising or other issues.

    And in the ranking of Yandex blogs there are already two important derivatives - a change in location and a change in authority! The first would give a chance to completely newcomers, writing a very interesting material and rising from some 1,000,000 places to 100,000 - 200,000, get to the top of the rating for a short while and at least for a moment swim in the glory! This, of course, is a lottery, but how much more exciting and interesting!

    The second, more important one, would make it possible for active and hard-working mid-level authors to create the most interesting content and earned the greatest increase in credibility during the measured period, make themselves known and find new readers.

    And finally, no one calls for canceling the existing rating option, it just should not be the only possible one.

    Such changes would lead not only to an increase in the usefulness and interest of the rating, but also to improvements in the blogosphere itself, an increase in the incentive to create new, original content, a decrease in thoughtless copy-paste, senseless squabbles and disputes and take it to a new round of development.

    Moreover, all the data for this is available, you only need to enable users to sort the table by other fields of the database. For such a talented programmer as kukutz, and even the avid Khabrahabrovts, work for a couple of hours! Yes, and its leader, everyone respected Segalovich Ilya Valentinovich, a frequent guest on Habré.

    Let us together ask them to do this for the common good and prosperity of the blogosphere. And at the same time we will show that the time of Web 2.0 and real social media is coming on Runet!

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