On May 4, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Ian Skerrett wrote:
However, we have
also been trying to give exposure to more member plugins; the goal being to
drive up the number of click thru’s for all member plugins. The last
time I did an analysis, a disproportional amount of activity is directed
toward about 20 plugins. I think it would be beneficial to the
entire community to see this number increase. We are hoping to
accomplish this by given more prominence to the new and update and the
featured plugin category. However, I think we can look at
creating more of a
balance.
This
comment concerns me. IMHO the top 20 plugins probably earned the attention
they get. Doing things to artificially "balance" this might really backfire.
I'm guessing that at least one of the "top 20" plugins belongs to
Instantiations, so I admit my bias. If we felt that we were being "balanced"
it would dramatically diminish our zeal for EPIC. A level playing field is one
thing, trying to find ways to "balance" the success of some plugins so that
they get more (or less) attention than they earn is unappealing.
