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Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
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Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:57:04 GMT
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Many of my posts have never received any replies or follow-ups, which is quite
depressing. With the current scoring system, at least I know one or two people
have read my post. This often makes me feel better. The actual score is not
that important. (I have never received a high score so far. :-P)

In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
The first, original purpose for having ratings was to be able to lay the
foundation for the later creation of variety of "what's hot" or "top X of
group Y" listings for quick browsing -- something akin to the current
Spotlight pages, only fully automated, instantly updating, and much more
representative of collective opinion.  The second original purpose was to
lay the foundation for so-called "collaborative filtering" possibilities --
the server learns (could learn) what types of things you prefer to read,
and gives (could give) higher priority to you personally for messages rated
higher by people with similar interests.  These two main purposes become
increasingly relevant as message traffic increases.

For this purpose, maybe a simple voting system will do a better job than the
current scoring system.

Just put a checkbox there, meaning "I like this post", and let's see how many
votes each posts get.

Cheers,
Hao-yang Wang



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  Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
 
All, It seems at this point that the article rating feature -- intended to help -- is actually causing more harm than good to the community. It's difficult to gauge how much harm is being done when opinions are so varied, but it's clear that (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !! 

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