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Re: Article scoring
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Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:06:03 GMT
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Steve Bliss (<ctgfcsop8uaj5lc1dcajkf6rbfvh25o1pt@4ax
.com>) wrote at 15:47:34

I didn't explain my idea very clearly, sorry.  I figured the server
could take the [1,10] votes, and map them to the [-100,100] range.  The
mapping could even be non-linear, but that's probably overkill.

BUT, like Dan said, avoid the numbers altogether.  The horizontal UI
thingy allows you to only use general labels.

Perhaps if the numbers were mapped to a coloured indicator?

You could have an orange-red for high scores, & blue-green for lows,
with a spectrum in between.
--
Tony Priestman



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(...) Interesting idea with the blue, BTW -- although it's generally not a great idea to use blue, purple, or magenta text on white-background web pages (because of traditional HTML link colors), there might actually be an advantage in using blue (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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(...) Hmm. Thinking back to the desired slider interface, you could put a good number of radio buttons horizontally across a page. The voter could click in the desired range. Something like: Very Bad Neutral Very Good O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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