I cannot understand how the “Interesting” discussions are chosen
By Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
Manchester, England
October 8, 2015 7:27am CST
If we check below the Explore tab there are several available links, most of which are easy to understand. The Recent Posts, New User and No Responses are self explanatory. Top Rated appears to be sorted according to number of likes, while Hot is sorted according to number of responses.
However, the Interesting section appears to have no logical composition whatsoever. I have tried to figure out some format behind the listing, but cannot find anything to justify the content. Many times the top of the list is a post with 3 or 4 responses and a couple of likes at the most, so how does that qualify as interesting?
The only possibility that I can think of is a selection due to keywords, which would certainly be open to abuse. Does anyone have any ideas of how this category is chosen?
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
8 Oct 15
myLot has the answer to that. They have the secret.
In my mind, what is interesting to one person is rubbish to the next.
And that is the size of it my friend haha
In my mind, what is interesting to one person is rubbish to the next.
And that is the size of it my friend haha4 people like this
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
8 Oct 15
@TiarasOceanView No, according to Forever The Lamb in his response below it is geared to the tags that we have used in our own posts.
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
8 Oct 15
@Asylum Perhaps it is just random.
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@Rollo1 (16677)
• Boston, Massachusetts
8 Oct 15
Not only are they chosen based on the tags you use (meaning everyone sees a different Interesting list) they go by which tags you use most often it seems. And the same posts can show up in the list two or three times, because you used all those tags. The problem then becomes, do I only want to read about the things I write about?
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
9 Oct 15
@hereandthere I cannot see any reason for tagging a discussion with your own name since that bears no relevance to the substance of the post.
I am also uncertain as to whether using such a tag would result in your own posts appearing there.
@pahak627 (5064)
• Philippines
8 Oct 15
Same as you, I also wonder how it is chosen. Good that you open this topic, I will read other responses and comments to know. My discussions have not qualified to interesting, etc., may be to the no responses, I have several of them. I'll try to see, I have several unresponded discussions.
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@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
8 Oct 15
I have to admit that I usually ignore that tab. usually I enjoy the most recent or read the ones with no comments.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
8 Oct 15
@RasmaSandra Time is always a factor, so we tend to develop our own routine to follow most of the time.
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@RasmaSandra (84188)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 Oct 15
@Asylum haven't tried the explore yet. I mostly stick to people and discussions. As soon as I have a bit more time I will explore.
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@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
8 Oct 15
No idea at all. I think if someone figures it out, he will make use of his knowledge to get his discussion threads into the Interesting category all the time.
I still do not like the lack of categories in Mylot.
I prefer to sort new discussion threads according to the categories instead of scrolling through the list.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
8 Oct 15
Apparently it is driven by the tags that you use in your own posts, which was explained below by PhredWreck. This cannot be abused because each member will see a different list according to what tags they have used.
I did prefer the categories that Mylot had in the past.
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@jstory07 (143537)
• Roseburg, Oregon
9 Oct 15
I never even thought about that before. Makes sense to be the tags that people follow and are popular. But I am not sure.
@OKennedy (1130)
• United States
22 Feb 16
They might be interesting to the person who chose them to be in that category. I think its a personal choice what interests one person may not interest another person. Sometimes we don't have a real understanding of some other persons rhyme or reason.
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@dpk262006 (58673)
• Delhi, India
8 Oct 15
I was also not very clear about interesting discussions till I read response of @PhredWreck. Now it clear to me.
Thanks to you too for starting this thread. 
Interestingly I found this discussion of yours under the category 'interesting discussions '.
Interestingly I found this discussion of yours under the category 'interesting discussions '.
@cahaya1983 (11116)
• Malaysia
9 Oct 15
I've always wondered about them. Thanks for bringing this up, now I know what they're based on. I used to think they're what the admins find interesting.
