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Re: Article scoring
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Sat, 4 Mar 2000 02:58:38 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
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?

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 _artificial_ boosting.  I know
that for me at least, I'd certainly want to mark many of my own articles as 0
(neutral) and even a few as -1 (negative).

BTW, only Members will be able to moderate (cast votes).  Much too difficult
to track things any other way.

--Todd



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Article scoring
 
(...) 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 (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
  Re: Article scoring
 
(...) Besides just having the final vote result (score), it would also be nice to know how many people have actually voted. Another very useful feature would be to be able to sort posts in different ways. Right now they are just listed in (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
  Re: Article scoring
 
(...) In that case, provide a method for a poster to pre-vote on their message when they post it. Steve (24 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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  Re: Article scoring
 
(...) 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. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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