User preference portal page?

[Ken Leung]

While I am still around these few weeks I started thinking about how things can be different around here agian , and this idea came to my head. I want to see what folks think. (And no there is no need to say things are good enough theres no need to change it , I just want to have a little fun with new ideas. )

What do you think about making the portal page into something like Digg.com or Reddit.com where user interest/preference determines how high up the portal page a topic is?

Something like Reddit.com where you can vote up or down by clicking an arrow next to a topic. Then the popular, interesting thread are going to stay high up the list while some of the less interesting, more controversal threads might get voted down because people are tired of fighting in some of them.

Of course, we are going to risk some threads becoming high up the list because they are mindlessly fun ones. They may not be so interesting to some of us but are so popular among the students that lots of them end up get voted upward (like a lot of the rumor mill threads). I suppose I can deal with that if that's what the community likes .

The real question we need to ask is how is that going to be be different by a portal page that shows the latest replies.

Thoughts? Ideas?