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Subject:	Re: New homepage for LUGNET
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general
Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2004 04:09:48 GMT
Reply-To:	mattdm@/stopspammers/mattdm.org
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Ralph Döring <doe@gmx.de> wrote: > An improved rating system for news: Ratings from 0-10 (like your PDX Photo > Gallery); graphically display rating to each news; link the ratings to the If I remember right, the initial news rating system *was* 0-10, and it didn't work very well. Too many options, too much work. > author as well: when an author always gets high ratings for his postings > it will be very likley that a new message by him will be interesting > again. Now combine this with some content based and collaborative > filtering and generate a personal LUGNET homepage (first-/front-page) > for each member/visitor. I'm not sure this is a good thing. It can lead to a sort of "clique" of Famous Posters and interesting things by newcomers or just plain quieter sorts could be easily lost. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>

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		Re: New homepage for LUGNET
(...) Ya, or rather it worked too well. It was actually used quite a bit, but it saw almost immediate abuse when people discovered that they could mark posts as zero from people they didn't like, just to be mean. Internally, it was represented by a (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)

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		Re: New homepage for LUGNET
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote: <schnipp> (...) <schnapp> (...) I'd rather like to see some more add-ons to the LUGNET newsgroups and a new frontpage than a complete redesign. The design of the newsgroups is excellent in both ways: (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)

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