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Re: Article scoring
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Sat, 4 Mar 2000 02:13:27 GMT
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jsproat@io.!spamcake!com
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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 and the Channels stuff.  Even if only
a handful of people actively end up choosing to vote.

The only reason I read Slashdot is because of the article scoring.  Not a bad
system, that.

But I'm enough of a narcissist that I'd be prone to artificially boost the
score on my own messages.  And I suspect I'm not alone.  (You know who you
are. ;-)  Should voting on articles you've written be allowed?

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Card-carrying member of the Star-Bellied Sneech Preservation Society



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  Re: Article scoring
 
(...) Maybe a simple IP check? It's not perfect, but if someone goes to all the trouble of getting different IP addresses to vote from, then maybe they have something important to say! I wonder if someone would click their market.auction posting (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Article scoring
 
(...) IMHO, it absolutely should be allowed, yes! The worst you could artificially boost the scores on your own messages is relatively tiny anyway -- once a few other people also have cast votes. I would also argue that it's not necessarily (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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  Article scoring
 
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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