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Re: Thread scoring
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Date: 
Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:17:15 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
is it possible, and worthwhile to have a thread score?  Have a thread • score
be the average score of _rated_ posts in that thread?

Weighted average? a post rated 75 by 5 should contribute more than one rated • 75
by 1, no?

how about saying "avg score 75 (1 out of 500 rated)"?

No, that's fine, what I was driving at was that I would not add up the averages
and divide by the number of posts, I'd add up the individual ratings and divide
by the number of ratings... see the diff?

Or were you talking about that already?

heh, that was exactly what I meant by average of rated posts - not all
posts in the thread.

:)

Dan



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(...) rated (...) averages (...) divide (...) STILL not sure we're on the same page. Suppose we have 3 posts. One got 5 ratings (plus the dummy) and has an average of 75 (dummy 50, 100, 100, 100, 50, 50) One got 1 rating (plus the dummy) and has an (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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(...) score (...) 75 (...) No, that's fine, what I was driving at was that I would not add up the averages and divide by the number of posts, I'd add up the individual ratings and divide by the number of ratings... see the diff? Or were you talking (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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