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On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Todd Lehman (<FqvI8u.LzE@lugnet.com>) wrote at 01:17:18 (...) So what's it for? A surrogate for me-too posts? Speaking as an NNTP person, I juge articles by the number of replies they get, and I wouldn't see any of this at all. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm not sure if referenced votes *should* be weighted differently, I just thought I'd throw it in :) Hmm.. if you did weight top-20 page posts differently, then *really* cool posts in low-traffic groups would still get ignored.. unless you (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: The cat is out of the bag (or, this is OFF-TOPIC.DEBATE!!!)
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(...) Why are you asking me? Why not ask the guy who started this discussion? What part of "Off-topic.debate" isn't clear? This has actually been a very good discussion - much better than most. This has been the most benign discussion I have ever (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: 4950 Loader Dozer
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(...) Thought it was me he was trying to provoke! Jeez, following a thread in 4 different groups is hard - I would never have seen Nan Zhou's apology in .underground if you hadn't referred to it! Kevin (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes. But let me force a cookie to be stored if I want to as well, even if the server thinks there is one there... and let it be my OLD cookie if I want. Sometimes my machines get screwed up. Sometimes I may have copied a cookie file over but (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) LOL! I'd be willing to endure that as long as it supports lugnet ;-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Wow, cool! Since when did this start?! -Shiri (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I almost get what you're getting at, but I'm stuck on one part of it. In the early stages of an article's appearance, let's say it's position 19 out of 20 on a top-20 page, and let's say only 7 people have voted +1 on it so far. Should it, in (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ah, that makes *all* the difference! The danger of someone taking out 100 LUGNET memberships to skew the votes and always have the most 'interesting' messages.. isn't really a danger! Richard (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh -- while I was out grocery shopping I just realized this: What is sqrt(n)? It's nothing more than a fancy way of writing n^(1/2). So: What if the exponent didn't have to be exactly 1/2, but instead was allowed to vary? Then what dynamics (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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