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Re: Article scoring
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 4 Mar 2000 01:53:04 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
<interesting (to me) yet long techie details snipped>
Great! I like this and agree to the reasoning, 'specially the sqrt part of
more people voting influencing more.
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> OK, that (above) was the internal math side of things. That part would all
> be (thank god :) completely transparent to users, who'll simply want to be
> able to click a button and see the current score.
;-)
> And maybe later, also be
> able to rank things by score. This could help a lot in getting visibility
> to things -- tied with the Spotlight
I agree, cool!
> and the Channels stuff.
Channels? Huh?
> Even if only
> a handful of people actively end up choosing to vote.
Right!
-Shiri
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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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| Last night I made up a little prototype test thingy for collaborative ranking (or scoring) of news articles in the system as being positive, neutral, or negative. (Nothing fancy, just about 20 lines of DB tracking code.) Its "underneath" (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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