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  Re: Article scoring
 
(...) OK, a couple of more thoughts on the [-100,+100] vs. [0,100] choice... I'm finding it increasingly difficult to defend the position of [-100,+100] due to a number of reasons. One which I don't think came up yet is how a new or casual user (...) (24 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: Article scoring
 
(...) <snip> (...) Yes, it makes a lot of sense, and I agree. (...) Right. (...) Meaning...? (...) I wouldn't be too sure it's so complex... then again, I'm a math geek so I wouldn't know ;-) (...) The last two are, IMO, HUGE advantadges for the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: Article scoring
 
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Todd Lehman (<Fr6srt.IrF@lugnet.com>) wrote at 03:38:17 (...) I think this has been at the back of my mind all along. I don't use the web i/f, so I've mostly avoided commenting. (24 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Article scoring
 
(...) If numbers are avoided on the voting UI, this 'first vote effect' won't be so noticeable, because people won't be immediately aware of the math behind the voting system. There'll probably be the occasional question (because someone just read (...) (24 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: Article scoring
 
(...) I thought about that too, but I figured that: 1. Most (not necessarily all, but most) people who would get hurt feelings would tend to post indifferent posts. 2. Unless a post is strongly 'bad', people aren't going to give it a negative vote. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: Article scoring
 
Todd: [ ... ] (...) Although I find the [-100,+100] range more intuitive, I think you are right that [0,+100] is the range to use for article scoring. Play well, Jacob (who never claimed to be ordinary ;-) ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: Article scoring
 
(...) A typographically correct minus sign is 1 en wide, which is typically about twice the width of a hyphen in most typefaces. HTML has the &#150; entity which is 1 en wide, and the &#151; entity which is 1 em wide, but AFAIK these aren't (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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