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Originally Posted by Pikantari
Hi there, I was just wondering how it is decided that a blog is a best blog? For many days mine was number four on the list and now I dont see it anywhere. I started going doing the pages of blogs but then said forget it.
How is it decided?
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I'll preface what you're inquiring with this: Blogs have a rating system where you have one to five stars (with five being the best and one the worst) and any user that reads your blogs has an opportunity to rate that post. If you have at least two posters that give you five stars, for example, then that figure will begin showing up in the upper right corner of the post you are reading, and that will read five stars. And if you take your mouse and slide the cursor underneath the stars, you can see your cumulative score for your post in the form of a numeric average. Sometimes, folks will give people 5 or 4 or 3 stars, etc, depending on whether or not they liked the post. In addition, a five-star rating has a minimum of a 4.5 score and up, and if it is 4.49 down to 3.5, then it is four stars, and so forth.
That said, once your scores begin appearing, you are entered into different lists. You'll appear under
Recent Entries (scored or not and that's actually when you've finished your written piece),
Best Entries,
Best Blogs, and
Blog Lists. And, of course, you know to go to where it says
Your Blog for all the things you submit. In the
Best Entries listings, page one is actually the five-star columns that were submitted back in the early days of the blog pages, and the most recent five-star offerings are found, oh gosh, around page 170 or so (as of right now), with the worst of the worst on the last pages. The more blog posts get rated, the more you'll see growth these entries take in. The listings that are under
Best Blogs, in my opinion, don't really make a lot of sense and need major changes with it, and I look at that category the least because it lists almost anything and accomplishes nothing, so you really don't know what the best blogs actually are. Your best bet would be to go to the
Best Entries category and do a search. Honestly, you'll find some really great stuff there and a lot of our best writers will have stuff rated with five and four stars. Also, under the
Blog Lists category, page one is a chart which you can sort by either username, title, or rating (if I were you, I'd sort it by rating to find the best of the best). It should also be noted that the
Recent Entries category offers the most recently-written items first on page one, so that situation is pretty self-explanatory if you've seen it. If your submissions have visible ratings, it actually gives you more exposure than just being seen in the
Recent Entries category.
Whew!! Hope this helps.
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