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Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:51:45 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
First way:  If two people like a message a lot (and, say, each mark it 100),
then it has a lower composite score than, say, several dozen people all
marking it 100.  This is because of the automatic softener-vote[1] by the

Yes, I understand that, but what about two people liking a message a lot vs.
several dozen saying that it's mediocre? Those are quite different.

Second way:  The coloring of the rating symbols is two-dimensional.  Its input

Ah. Yes, that's much better. (Does MS Win still only use 20 colors for text,
or can you use anything now?)


words, the color saturation is how seriously to take the rating.  It's subtle,
but it's like that on purpose so that, basically, the more red you see, the
more your eye is drawn to it.  (Red, biologically, has the strongest draw of
all colors, for non-colorblind humans.)

Red also has connotations of "Warning", "Stop", and "Negative", doesn't it?

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  Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
 
(...) Two people liking a message a lot would have a composite score of 60 to 70. Several dozen saying that it's mediocre would have a composite score of 0 to 30, depending on how you define "mediocre." A low score with a lot of input shows up dark (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
 
(...) There are two ways, currently -- but they're designed to work without getting in the way (rather than to be obvious). First way: If two people like a message a lot (and, say, each mark it 100), then it has a lower composite score than, say, (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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