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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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| | Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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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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