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(...) The problem I see with the rating system is that if it is something totally subjective and each person who rates an article can use whatever method and scale they feel like to assign ratings, then the rating system seems to me to be close to (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) There are many different methods that people can use in their minds as they give input, but all of the methods have the same net effect: They give a number which gets averaged, and that average score is a reflection of a collective "read (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) One problem I could see with this is that lets say a given set shows up for 10 weeks in S@H, and all those S@H specials posts end up with a very high rating. Then, a review of the set, which is a set people generally don't care for gets a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Here's a crude example -- a static list built "by hand" from a few one-liners using current data: (URL) told it to examine all the articles which have been rated so far, and adjust their ratings downward the older the article, according to (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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(...) that's pretty cool - what would be interesting is to see what articles were _missed_. Also, I started thinking about the default rating... Say, something posted to .announce should probably be rated higher by default than, say, something (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) addition to time value, takes the NUMBER of ratings into account. To my way of thinking 2 articles both rated 90 aren't quite the same if one is rated 90 by 5 and the other by 50. Just something to ponder. ++Lar (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) [...] (...) I'm with you on this. This is the only real problem with the system as it stands - not enough readers are rating the posts. Scores on post with only one rating are of little value (to me) - especially when the single score is 0 or (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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