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Re: New feature: Article rating
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Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:47:43 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Schilling writes:
I think a great side benefit of the article rating system is the fact that
articles you've rated are marked with '>>'s.  This alone makes it worth rating
every article you read, as now you don't have to rely on having your browser
remember which articles you've read.  Especially useful for when you use
multiple machines to read messages!

Which clearly means Todd's sw knows articles we've read, if we've rated them.
Let's extend that to knowing ALL articles we've read. That enables a lot of
better browsing options. I would be willing to somehow mark articles as read
(if we can figure out an easy way) even if I decided against rating them...

As I said a while back if you show me a tree(nested all, not the dots tree)
view it may be reasonable to assume i read the whole tree even if I didn't rate
all the articles

And I never did hear back about whether there was an upper bound on ability to
rate nested all trees... or else i forgot

++Lar



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  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) I was thinking about this the other night a bit, and I think it could be made to work. If you're willing to have it assume that you'll read anything it shows you, and you're willing to have a "mark unread" button, then that could end up being (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
I think a great side benefit of the article rating system is the fact that articles you've rated are marked with '>>'s. This alone makes it worth rating every article you read, as now you don't have to rely on having your browser remember which (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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