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Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
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Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:23:51 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> Clearly, these are very strong feelings being expressed by people. How many
> others feel this way? What would you like to see happen? Post your thoughts
> as a reply to this message (or reply privately if you prefer not to post your
> thoughts publicly).
I, personally, like the rating system. I do understand the emotion that I
attach to my posts, and while I know I don't always post something useful, it
does stab (a tiny bit) when I see it marked down... So I guess I wouldn't want
to have it go away, but perhaps be less visible...
> 1. How would you feel (better or worse) if the numeric values of the ratings
> were not displayed to you unless you specifically requested (via some simple
> setting) that they be displayed to you?
that's probably a good idea - if someone wants nothing to do with the rating,
they could disable it alltogether.
> 2. How would you feel (better or worse) if the numeric values of the ratings
> were not displayed ever to anyone but collected and used by the server only
> for internal calculations, hotlist generation, and personal recommendations
> to you?
I think I'd like to be able to find out what my post (or any post, for that
matter) is rated in the community.
> 3. How would you feel (better or worse) if the ratings were not even
> collected and collated in the first place? (i.e. the destruction of the
> feature altogether)
no, I think this would be a bad idea. I like the ratings, and I like the idea
of the spotlight being updated automaticlly...
> 4. Have you ever felt victimized by the rating system? Have you posted
> something which has obtained a low rating and felt uncomfortable or unhappy
> about yourself or about LUGNET because of the low rating? How often?
well, someone rated my idea that "la la la" should be an html tag as a 0.
While it stung, I definitly agreed with it.
> 5. Have you ever felt victimized indirectly by seeing someone else's post
> get a high rating? How often?
nope.
> 6. Do you feel that the article rating system makes it easier for you or
> harder for you to share your ideas? And does this bother you?
nope, and I don't think it makes it easier or harder...
> 7. How does your initial reaction to the announcement of the article rating
> system compare to your current opinion of it?
heh, well, I didn't think of all the trouble it could cause... I still like it.
> 8. Do you feel that it is too early, too late, or the right time to address
> these issues?
right time :)
> 9. What other areas (besides news articles) can you imagine that a
> collaborative ratings system would be most helpful to you? LEGO sets?
> Websites? Individual web pages? etc...
don't we already have that for web pages, at least in some form, in the CSotW?
anyway, what I think should be done:
* have an option to hide the whole rating system, like it was never there...
The scores, and the voting bar as well.
* perhaps hide the score of an article by default - you won't see it unless you
are activly looking for it. If I post a useless post (IMO), I won't bother
looking at it's rating, since I know it's bad...
* possibly make the ratings invisible to anyone but the poster of that message
- though that will kinda defeat the purpose of showing other people cool
posts...
:)
Dan
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