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Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
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Fri, 21 Apr 2000 01:02:19 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, John Koob writes:
Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
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?

One idea is that ratings continue to be collected as they are now, but
conditionally display the numerical results.  That is, only display the
net rating result for a post if:
  - the sample size is greater than a certain threshold (say 4)
  - the rating is greater than a threshold (say 70)
In this way, noteworthy posts would stand out.  Also, the ability to
down-rate a message still exists, but there is little chance of
offending the poster.

That's a good idea! I'm not sure what you mean by "sample size"; but I think
that adding another condition would be useful:
-Only display the rating if more than X people have rated it (X = ? Perhaps
5?)

Is that what you meant by sample size? If not, what did you mean by it?

Ratings would help with the 'spotlight' feature, which I find
valuable.

Agreed; the temporary "top 40" seems very useful.

-Shiri



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  Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
 
Shiri Dori wrote in message ... (...) think (...) Yes. It doesn't really matter what X is, but 4 or 5 seems reasonable to start with. -- John (remove the obvious to reply) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
 
Todd Lehman wrote in message ... <snip> (...) ratings (...) simple (...) I think most users would activate this setting, if available. That is, it wouldn't likely solve the problems. (...) ratings (...) One idea is that ratings continue to be (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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