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  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
I think a great side benefit of the article rating system is the fact that articles you've rated are marked with '>>'s. This alone makes it worth rating every article you read, as now you don't have to rely on having your browser remember which (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) True, although for those of us with a 10mb+ history file, you already know which ones you've seen or not :) Richard (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) Which clearly means Todd's sw knows articles we've read, if we've rated them. Let's extend that to knowing ALL articles we've read. That enables a lot of better browsing options. I would be willing to somehow mark articles as read (if we can (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) I was thinking about this the other night a bit, and I think it could be made to work. If you're willing to have it assume that you'll read anything it shows you, and you're willing to have a "mark unread" button, then that could end up being (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) YES, I'll take a fast, possibly inaccurate way to mark read and a slow but guaranteed accurate way to unmark read. I mark read a lot more than I unmark. (...) A "nested all" tree is what I just made up to mean what you get when you press the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) Ah, YES! That's the wording I was looking for! Thank you -- well said! (...) OK, roger that. (...) OK, thanks for clarifying. (...) That's odd. No, I haven't seen it. I wonder if it's overflowing some form size or something in the browser? (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) ! 
 
  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) This was against the Tree That Shall Not Be Named for fear of stirring it up again, at the time I think it was about 180 or so, and i had rated maybe 30 or them. I went through and rated every single post. In some cases I changed existing (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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