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Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 21 Apr 2000 05:46:18 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> [...]
> Instead of displaying ratings as numbers, display them now as a string of "+"
> symbols (and a "-" symbol for 0)... i.e.:
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> SYMBOL NEW OLD
> ++++ 5 83-100
> +++ 4 67-82
> ++ 3 50-66
> + 2 33-49
> 1 17-32
> - 0 0-16
> [...]
The minus signs still look damaging, and I don't think it's good that a
default of 1 (20 internally) can be lowered to 0 by a single person casting
a 0. (20+0)/2 = 10, which becomes 0, which becomes "-".
Might tweak this tomorrow, either to...
SYMBOL NEW OLD
+++++ 5 83-100
++++ 4 67-82
+++ 3 50-66
++ 2 33-49
+ 1 17-32
0 0-16
...or to...
SYMBOL NEW OLD
++++ 4 80-100
+++ 3 60-79
++ 2 40-59
+ 1 20-39
0 0-19
...and in either case with 0 as the default rather than 1 (or 20 internally).
0 (blank) just seems so much easier to start with and explain than partway
up the range. This way, also, nothing could _ever_ get a negative rating --
The worst that could happen to something is that it didn't have any symbol
shown next to it.
--Todd
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