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Re: New feature: Article rating
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 01:05:35 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman & Suzanne Rich writes:
> LUGNET's article rating system is now running and hungry for input!
>
> As the community continues to grow, so does the challenge in keeping up. Some
> days it can be difficult to find exciting content among the hundreds of new
> messages.
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> To aid browsing, each news article now carries a rating in the range 0 (low)
> to 100 (high).
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> This feature is designed to benefit all, but particularly to benefit casual
> readers who cannot devote time.
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>
> How it works:
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> Each signed-in[1] LUGNET Member may mark a read article from "low" (0) to
> "high" (100) using a row of buttons. This input affects the average rating
> for that article.
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> To absorb and dampen extreme input conditions which would otherwise allow a
> small number of inputs to "peg the scale," all articles start out with an
> automatic midpoint rating of 50, which also participates in the average just
> as any human-entered rating would.[2]
>
> The marking process is lasting and unlimited. Thus, you could rate messages
> from weeks, months, or even years ago, and since the composite rating is
> simply a numerical average, it doesn't matter which order you go in.
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> Only LUGNET Members can rate articles, but anyone can view and benefit from
> the ratings. Your individual ratings are shown to you only.
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>
> In the long-term:
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> * Stronger content becomes easier and easier to find, rather than the
> opposite.
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> * Spotlight[3] news becomes easier to identify and more representative of
> community opinion.
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> * As you contribute more input, the system can learn how your input • correlates
> with the input of others. It could even attempt to highlight things it
> thinks you might find particularly interesting.
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> * The rating engine could be put to generalized use, for example, in rating
> LEGO sets, voting on sites for CLSotW, in judging contests, and so forth.
> A sort of match-making service may even develop!
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> --Todd & Suz
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> [1] http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/sign-in/
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> [2] Thus, if a first person rates an article 90, its rating becomes (50+90)/2
> or 70. If a second person then rates the same article 100, its rating
> then becomes (50+90+100)/3 or 80. Average ratings of 0 or 100 are
> extremely improbable, by design.
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> [3] http://www.lugnet.com/?p=spotlight
So, of course, us slugs who don't have a membership have to put up with others
opinions without being able to inflict ours on others (well, numerically
speaking). :-)
Bruce
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