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Article rating (was: Re: the latest news)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:28:52 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Thomas Main writes:
> [...] One thing I really don't understand is who goes to the trouble of
> rating articles that everyone realizes are not important....like maybe the
> "me too" posts (in general groups, not the new LEGO ones) or auction posts
> that just convey information about an auction. To me, it seems like a big
> waste of time on the part of the person rating.
Probably depends on how quickly they can rate articles. Through the website,
it's a little cumbersome to give input on everything -- a lot of scrolling and
mouse-clicking and waiting, etc. But using a custom newsreader client, it can
be as fast as a single keystroke.
For example, if I want to rate an article 70, I just press the "7" key on my
keyboard and it queues up a 70 for that article (which it sends to the server
in the background) and then immediately shows me the next article. If I could
(theoretically) actually read 1 article per second, I could actually rate 1
article per second. But my brain doesn't work that fast. :)
My overhead for rating something I've read is probably 1/2 second per article.
I have to hit some key to advance to the next article anyway, so it might as
well be one of the rating keys. If I don't have an opinion, I just hit a non-
rating skip-to-the-next-article key and don't mark the article.
> As a consumer, I'd rather not see the ratings at all ;) Usually I read
> LUGNET through a newsreader, so I don't see the ratings, but occasionally I
> peek at the web page and see that this or that article was rated a certain
> way and I think, "Wow, someone has a lot of extra time on their hands," or
> "Why would someone rate this article so low," or "Wow, that rating seems
> petty and vindictive to me...I wonder who is doing all this rating anyway?"
How about search results? Sometime down the road (a long way, probably) the
search results could take the ratings into account (at your discretion at
search-time) and you could ask the search engine to give higher priority to
articles with higher scores. Would you find that useful?
> As a producer...well, I think it's best if I don't rate posts because I
> don't want to mess up averages by giving out 100s and I don't want to have
> to think a long time to try to come up with a number between 0 and 100
> (particularly, if, you're like me and would rate the same message "40" one
> day and "60" another depending on when you read it, what you were thinking
> about at the time, and all the other random things that contribute to
> scoring subjectively.)
Well, maybe it's not something for you then. (Certainly, it's not for
everyone, because it does take a bit of time and concentration sometimes.)
What if, instead of giving out 0's and 100's, you could give out either a
25 or a 75? (Or some other pair?) Would you find that less intimidating?
--Todd
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 | | Re: Article rating (was: Re: the latest news)
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| (...) Apologies if this has been asked before and I missed it, but is this available? It sounds *extremely* useful! (...) Yep! Yep! Yepyepyepyepyepyep! Useful! Yepyepyep!! Yeeeep! Actually, if that included fuller search capabilities as well (date, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Article rating (was: Re: the latest news)
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| (...) Yikes, I gotta watch my wording. There's nothing to read between the lines there -- those are two separate statements. I realise that rating takes time and that not everyone has time or wants to spend it. (...) Intimidating was a poor word (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the latest news
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| (...) I think both would be useful... (...) And the few times I have used the system...that's the way I've used it. I marked a few articles I read at "100" -- I don't think I would ever rate an article "0" though...I only rate things that I think (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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