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    Re: Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news) —John Gramley
   (...) Definitely agree. It sure makes it easier for me to know what to rate and what the rating specifically. (...) Do you mean something like it could "change its mind" daily to make sure that some minimun number of posts show up? (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news) —Todd Lehman
     (...) Ya, something like that -- I was just being nebulous -- needs some magic sprinkles applied somewhere to make it work. Maybe letting the user set the threshold would simply solve it. (...) Ya, the left-column (weblog style) methodology is best (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news) —Todd Lehman
     (...) No, but one example of the Spotlight page having "its own opinion" might be if it gave a significantly higher precedence to articles appearing in newsgroups containing the name "announce", regardless of current human input. That is, maybe the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news) —Dan Boger
   (...) I liked the left column since it allowed me to go to the link mentioned in the article directly, and not have to open the message to get to it. Perhaps it could be replaced with a "references" column, that will just extract the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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