I've added you.

Done!

You're in :)

Added!

Yeh, the members page is broken on the group :( You are on the list from before :)

You were on from Total Views.

Added you.

2 more Instructables for the century :D

You're already on it, you were in the Total Views group :)

Easy to do, but I decided against it because i thought people would get annoyed if I sent them each 6 patches, I'd send over 1200 :p

Luckily, you haven't.

I think you're right, I've been thinking about this quite a bit since I visited San Fran and the idea appeared while talking about stuff with someone (can't remember who now).

However, it's something I'm watching. If it gets out of hand, I can delete people from the list. Though I think that the benefits outweigh the potential negatives. As Moem said, hopefully people will in their minds give more weight to best answers and featured numbers than not. And the total views inspires people to try harder with outreach for their projects and picture and text quality. It's comments that I'm most worried about, though I really hope that it will inspire people to leave nice comments rather than spammy ones.

I think Following has the biggest potential to increase views. It would incite more people to follow others, which would have a double effect. 1) It'd make people feel good because it's awesome when someone subscribes to you. Hopefully this would lead to more quality published Instructables. 2) It'd increase the number of people coming back to the site frequently since they'd get an email each time someoen they subscribe to published. It would be a REALLY easy patch to get if people were interested in getting patches, which I quite like.

Rimar, I hope Google translates this well for you. But typing it all out was as much for my benefit as yours :) When I've finished the programming I'll write paragraph for each type of patch, it'd be interesting to think about the negative/positive impacts for them.

I'll be doing that, I have a patch for it that Liisa made. But yes, we can always revert to just that if people spam.

Luckily, as you know, through featuring, homepage, newsletters and search engines, bad content sinks and good content flies. There's a lot of rubbish around, but how often do you see it unless you're crawling through the recent feed. The good stuff gets picked up by blogs and the homepage and the bad stuff gets lost.

You are :)

Done :)

Only 100 to go until your next patch then :) Here's a graph so you can extrapolate....

Yup! Of around 30 per month. Oooooo one sec. I should run scoochmaroo....

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That's a good idea. Yes. In theory :p

Yup :) You're still on it. 4 more Instructables to your 25 Ibles patch :D

25 I believe.

You're on the list :)

You were already on it from when it was just the total views group :) You have 6 Instructables, 15 answers, 120 subscribers, 19 following, 240 comments until your next patches :) Time to get publishing nina!

Ohhh. I'll update it, sorry, I meant I can't add new users automatically. I already have a big list of people that used to be in the group :) I'll add a membership list so people can check at some point.