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Re: New feature: Article rating
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Date: 
Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:47:43 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Schilling writes:
> 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 articles you've read.  Especially useful for when you use
> multiple machines to read messages!

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 figure out an easy way) even if I decided against rating them...

As I said a while back if you show me a tree(nested all, not the dots tree)
view it may be reasonable to assume i read the whole tree even if I didn't rate
all the articles

And I never did hear back about whether there was an upper bound on ability to
rate nested all trees... or else i forgot

++Lar



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  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 (...) (27 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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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 (...) (27 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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