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Hi japaneseass, There's been a long conversation about this topic here the past few weeks, so there is a lot of insight from lots of members throughout the past few posts. I'd suggest you skim them if and when you have a chance, but I will brief you as to why the list behaves as it currently does: The problem many bloggers brought to our attention is that the blog page has a self-perpetuating leaderboard. It has certain benefits, because those blogs are active and engage lots of users, but it is highly unlikely for any other blogger to appear on that list if they are not blogging 24 hours a day and getting 100+ comments per post. This isn't the best design to showcase the variety of activity around the community here, but it doesn't mean that there shouldn't be a place to showcase the activity the community exhibits. Initially, many people shared that they felt a completely random option would be best to diminish the blog wars. Of course this is important to us as a company, because we want our users to engage positively with one another in a positive environment. Negativity in any way is not good for you as a user or good for us as a company. However, only showing a completely random assortment of blogs on the blog main page deprives new and active users from access to hubs of real-time activity and conversation within the community. The page we've designed includes all the columns you find on the current blog page, as well as the 'Trending Blog Posts' and 'Random Blog Posts' column. We are trying to strike a balance that does try to meet fairness (the main reason that we kept the 'Random Blog Posts' option). Trending posts are not 'selected' by us. We've created an algorithm, and every post that is submitted is scored independently of the other. jonthomas' response below does a good job explaining how posts are measured. It's not an exact science, but we're looking at a formula to showcase where conversations are happening, what content is drawing attention and engagement. We are currently adding another metric that would include a larger sampling of blog posts, rather than the text-heavy posts that appear right now. Keep in mind that we can't show everyone on any one column. That's why we've provided options. Random for those who want random, Active for those who want to see more of what they're used to, Trending for users to see what posts are getting a lot of engagement, and 'Classic View' for those who want their blog page to remain as it is now. There's also the 'View Most Watched Blogs' list that you mention. Trending posts don't appear on the column after 2 days. We felt this was a good amount of time to highlight good content, and allow users who don't log in every single day to get a glimpse of where hot spots of activity were while they were not logged in. This doesn't mean that the list you're looking at moves every second. It's movement is triggered by member activity -- not some metric we assign to it. When you guys talk and respond, in any blog post, that list changes. Maybe 9 dropped off in 6 or 8 hours. That's a very different system than what everyone has been dealing with. In another 6 hours, 9 more could drop off -- and in another 6 hours... We really hope that these changes to the blog page will address the long standing concerns of the blog community. We are soon going to be including blog activity within every user's activity feed, so the trending column does a good job for giving access to newbies to where users are talking in real-time. Time will tell if we've struck a good balance, but we too hope that these steps take us in the right direction. There are other ways of gaming this selection process.....very easily.....which I do not intend to go in to here but I do feel that it is unlikely that anyone who does not post long blogs or does not already have a fair number of watchers who comment faithfully will feature on the trending list however interesting their post may be. Have you any idea how soon the new metric will be included in the test lists? ~~Anais Nin~~
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I seem to have lost the second page of my watched blogs (there used to be a "next" button to get to the second page overflow, but not any more). Also, chiming in to agree with adding a 'Like' button. That would be great. Sometimes I just don't have a pithy comment in me, but would like to let the blogger know that I liked their post.   
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OK, so I come back to Passion and my blog which I had worked to build for years is completely gone, everything and my pics in my profils also. What is up with this?
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