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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> > And it [makes] at least as much sense to have an implicit 'indifferent' vote • ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > from the system as it does to have a special rule for the case of zero
> > votes.
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> Steve, I'm glad you mentioned that -- because from a "makes sense" point of
(hey, anything to help out)
[snipped all the stuff I agree with]
> OK, now for the *actual* user interface. A slider which glides between -100
> and +100 would be perfect, but that's not part of HTML forms, so it has to
> be a drop-down list box with a few choices. (A fill-in-the-box might kinda
> work, but that's prolly too much work for the user.)
How about radio buttons instead of a drop-down list? Seems more
approachable for the non-geeks among us.
> I'm weary of 33's and 66's because they don't seem "round" enough, so what
> I've got now in the test thingie is the 6 values of +100, +75, +50, +25, -25,
> -50, -75, and -100. (0 is also a list item, but it means "I don't care" or
> "erase my earlier vote" and displays as three dashes).
You could let people choose a score from 1 to 10. This is very
intuitive, at least for us Michiganders--I can't speak for the rest of
the world.
> I don't know how to avoid judgment words like "good" and "bad" and still
> have the labels "make quick sense." Any suggestions?
Having a '1 to 10' UI would let you avoid the labels.
Steve
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| (...) OH! Yes, radio buttons. When the number of choices is small, maybe that's the way to go. OTOH, radio buttons in GUI web browsers are smaller "targets" than list boxes. Does MSIE know how to automagically group text associated with a radio (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) ^^^...^^^ (...) Steve, I'm glad you mentioned that -- because from a "makes sense" point of view, I think it's much harder to explain to voters that the article's score is sum(V,1,n)/(n+1) [n voters] than it is simply to explain that the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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