Why is it that only Eos' Official Nexon News posts get put on the home page?

• Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-09-11 15:57
  It's a legit question too I feel. I hate to point fingers and be a whistle blower but it seems a bit unfair if you ask me.
  
  There's been several ones made that are similar in content that weren't put on the home page. Examples:
  
  This one was put on the home page:
  http://mabination.com/content/888-Shopkeeper-s-Sale
  
  But this one was not:
  http://mabination.com/threads/82062-Shopkeeper-s-Sale-Maid-amp-Butler!
  
  There's tons of other examples if you search through the legit Official Nexon Posts, and compare to what's been on the home page.
  
  Just curious as to why this is the case.
• Bunny wrote on 2014-09-11 16:15
  [FONT="Arial"]I think Osay is just busy with other things lately.
  
  I'd definitely do it if I knew how to.
  I don't think I have the permissions to do that though.[/FONT]
• Jake wrote on 2014-09-11 16:27
  It's probably automated. Eos has it automated on southperry using "notify", so osay probably implemented his automation here. The front page things are vbulletin CMS articles. In order to put them on the front page, you have to 'promote' a thread to an article. This is manual; there's no way to automate it in the default vbulletin software, so yeah (Maybe you can have it do it via an RSS feed, but if the front page isn't grabbing all threads made in the same section, then this likely isn't the case). I bet it's Eos' script, Eos' rules. Or eos has power to promote threads to articles or something and does it manually, but my bet goes towards automation. Notify on southperry automatically grabs and posts nexon updates. It's not perfect though, which is why sometimes you guys manually beat it to the post. Notify is probably implemented under Eos forum account here as opposed to a separate dedicated account. Notifys grabs are also published to the vbulletin cms articles on southperry as well.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-09-11 17:12
  Hmmm your explanation seems likely Jake. I'd like it if Eos or Osay could confirm that. Would feel a lot better if that was indeed the case here.
• Osayidan wrote on 2014-09-11 17:40
  It's 100% laziness and being busy. I know his posts are always properly formated and sourced, so I don't even read them and just send them to the front page whenever I get a couple of minutes to do it in. If he were to someday post porn there's a good chance it would end up there.
  
  For all the other threads I'll occasionally check them and if it isn't too out dated and still relevant (for example a maintenance that already happened, or an event that's already well in progress) then I send them to the front page.
• Taycat wrote on 2014-09-11 18:05
  Osay needs a person that can manage the front page it seems
  like a news reporter or something
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-09-11 18:56

  Quote from Osayidan;1246602:

  It's 100% laziness and being busy. I know his posts are always properly formated and sourced, so I don't even read them and just send them to the front page whenever I get a couple of minutes to do it in. If he were to someday post porn there's a good chance it would end up there.
  
  For all the other threads I'll occasionally check them and if it isn't too out dated and still relevant (for example a maintenance that already happened, or an event that's already well in progress) then I send them to the front page.

  
  
  Well that explains that. Well thanks for the honesty Osay.
• Osayidan wrote on 2014-09-11 19:14

  Quote from Taycat;1246612:

  Osay needs a person that can manage the front page it seems
  like a news reporter or something

  
  Its a good idea but right now I don't know what the future of the front page will be.
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2014-09-12 06:34

  Quote from Osayidan;1246631:

  Its a good idea but right now I don't know what the future of the front page will be.

  
  
  If you are 100% lazy and being busy, the future of the front page won't be much different than what it is now...
• Snowie Stormflower wrote on 2014-09-12 07:39

  Quote from Taycat;1246612:

  Osay needs a person that can manage the front page it seems
  like a news reporter or something

  
  
  I think I wanted to do it once or twice, back then I found out that moderators were once able to do it, but due to a certain issue - which I don't remember now - it's now restricted to Admins and Osay.
  
  

  Quote from EndlessDreams;1246751:

  If you are 100% lazy and being busy, the future of the front page won't be much different than what it is now...

  
  
  He's probably only 99% busy, hurr hurr, maybe he should find someone willing to help him with updating the site, while discussing it with him first of course, Osay probably still wants to have the site looking the way he wants it to.
• Osayidan wrote on 2014-09-12 11:23
  I've got a 2 week vacation coming up in a couple of weeks, during which I'll be re-evaluating xenforo after which one of 2 things will happen:
  1) switch to xenforo (no more front page most likely)
  2) decide it's not worth it and finish up this thing instead (which includes the front page changing)
• Taycat wrote on 2014-09-12 11:41
  xenforo can have a front page, you just need the scripts for it
• Baku wrote on 2014-09-12 13:09

  Quote from Taycat;1246798:

  xenforo can have a front page, you just need the scripts for it

  
  
  Anything can have a front page if you have the scripts for it, you can make scripts for anything to make it work... the thing is that that requires extra work, which requires extra time, and Osay time is limited.
  
  Also honestly, how many people do use the home page? What does analytics say? I doubt many people do.
• Osayidan wrote on 2014-09-12 13:15

  Quote from Baku;1246816:

  Anything can have a front page if you have the scripts for it, you can make scripts for anything to make it work... the thing is that that requires extra work, which requires extra time, and Osay time is limited.
  
  Also honestly, how many people do use the home page? What does analytics say? I doubt many people do.

  
  It's about 5% of total traffic, and I guess most of that is people typing in Mabination.com since that's where it takes you. #1 link clicked from home page is forums.
• Eos wrote on 2014-09-12 17:59

  Quote from Kingofrunes;1246577:

  Hmmm your explanation seems likely Jake. I'd like it if Eos or Osay could confirm that. Would feel a lot better if that was indeed the case here.

  
  
  A whole thread about me and I am late to it, but I never even noticed this was happening so wouldn't have had any input anyhow.
  Osayidan's explanation did make me laugh though.