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Re: Strategic Rating (Was: Re: Next and Prev buttons or links)
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Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:25:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger wrote:
> Richard Franks wrote:
> >
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> >
> > > BTW, when I say "to mark duplicate info down" I mean down as far
> > > as possible, not down w.r.t. other opinions or w.r.t. the
> > > composite rating. I still would have rated it a 0 even if there
> > > hadn't already been a 100 on it prior to my rating it. I try
> > > _real_ hard to ignore other ratings when coming up with my own.
> >
> > When we have the tables, and the auto-sorting of rated messages..
> > will we need to see the actual ratings for individual posts?
> >
> > It could solve the problem of being influenced by others, and the
> > problem of depressing people by giving them a less than 50 score.
> > I agree that the *entire* scale should be used, but if I rated
> > down every conversational, or otherwise below-average post.. then
> > a lot more feelings would be hurt! Even seeing a 45 next to your
> > post can be taken too personally sometimes - and I'm not sure that
> > that is something that is just going to go away either :/
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> what if instead of seeing a number as the rating (which we can all
> read and react to) we'll see it as a color - anywhere from #00FF00
> for 100 to #FF0000 for 0 - it won't be obvious what the exact rating
> was (and it doesn't really matter what it is), but we'll be able to
> tell what the general idea is...
Just an FYI... Human interface guidelines suggest that color should
never be the sole carrier of information, for several reasons. The
obvious reason is so that people with difficulty distinguishing colors
or shades of gradation can use your system. Another reason is that
different colors mean different things in different cultures. In some
countries, for example, white (not black) is the color of mourning.
The same thing goes for icons. A picture that is "intuitively obvious"
to one person may leave another scratching his head. (At a software
company I used to work for, we had a feature for "freezing" a column.
The icon was at one point a thermometer with a very low mercury level,
which confused the heck out of our Japanese customers. Their idioms
don't include freeze = hold in place.)
--
Susan Hoover
Houston, TX
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