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Re: New feature: Article rating
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 03:34:51 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Salm writes:
> Plus, article scoring is not a popularity contest. It is intended to save
> time for readers and also to help direct readers towards messages that have
> the best content on the subject they wish to read about.
Agreed!
> Several types of posts are not really subject to article scoring--
> [...]
> posts asking a question (the response posts with the answer may be entitled to
> high scores, though)
I think questions should be voted - especially if the answer is wanted by a lot
of people, but does that mean that the question post should be voted lower once
it has been answered? From a "Show me all the best articles" perspective it's
good, from a history "What sort of posts are good" persepective, it's not so
good though! It perhaps depends on whether the table is time-based or not?
Richard
Richard
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