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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> > 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 O
> >
> > It wouldn't slide (ie, you couldn't hold down the mouse button, and drag
> > between buttons), but it would be visually close.
>
> That would rock!!
OK, looks like this is going to work great! On the screen, it's looking
much cleaner than what I had before with the drop-down list.
A not-too-big-yet-not-to-small number of radio buttons with a neat numeric
spread is 6, which yields the linear progression of values 0 -> 20 -> 40 ->
60 -> 80 -> 100. Implicitly, there's a 50 hidden in there by means of
abstaining from the vote on that article.
Another neat possibility is 9, which yields the linear progression of values
0 -> 12.5 -> 25 -> 37.5 -> 50 -> 62.5 -> 75 -> 83.5 -> 100. (That might be
too many.)
The number 7 yields the linear progression 0 -> 16.667 -> 33.333 -> 50 ->
66.667 -> 83.333 -> 100.
I'm not sure there's much difference between 6 and 7.
> > But I think Dan is right - avoid numbers altogether. And avoiding
> > numbers also means that voters would have less trouble accepting the
> > score they see after they cast their vote. Since the entire
> > votes->score transformation becomes a magic black box, they don't have
> > to worry about why casting +100 as the first vote turns into a score of
> > only 50. Provide the details (somewhere) for anyone who wants to read
> > it, but don't put it on the voting page.
Good advice -- it seems to feel a lot less confusing now (ironic, seeing as
there's less visible information). Also, to underscore the subjectivity, I
changed some wording. The button to cast the vote(s) say "Submit Vote(s)"
before, but now says "Submit Opinion(s)".
Not sure yet about the label showing the number of votes. It used to say
"Votes:", but now says "Opinions:". But whereas "Votes:" was technically
correct, "Opinions:" isn't quite correct...there might be ten hundred
opinions about an article but only seven sent in. Welp, I'll leave it as
"Opinions:" for now.
--Todd
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| (...) OK, pruning this down to be as simple as possible -- while still retaining the option to include an edit box for fine-tuning later down the road -- it turns out that a six-position set of radio buttons is really slick. :) Eliminating the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) That would rock!! (...) I don't think the HTML would be too heavy, but it could get pretty nasty on the web browser (depending on how many buttons there were per article). I seem to remember the Fibblesnork LEGO Survey pages (which each have (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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