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Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
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Thu, 6 Apr 2000 04:53:47 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> >   lugnet.foo.bar 40 60 70 70 80
> >   lugnet.bar.baz 70
> >   lugnet.glorp.gnort 80 80 90 90 90 90 90 90 100 100 100
> 
> Uh oh; now I'm confused again. I thought articles were rated, not groups.

No, that's correct.  Articles are, groups aren't.  But a client could, if it
wanted to, start messages off with any default number (not necessarily 50)
based on which group(s) the article appears in.


> [...]
> Maybe I'm missing something (like I said, I'm confused) but it seems like
> it'd make sense to calculate the (new) current value whenever a new rating
> is submitted, and store that. (I assume that articles will be read at least
> an order of magnitude more often than they are rated.)

The server does store the new composite rating (almost) whenever a new rating
is submitted by a human, yes.  I say almost because it actually only stores the
sum and the count, and divides these to get the rating at display-time only.
That's so that the 50 isn't written in stone.

But the composite ratings aren't as useful to clients as the raw values, and

--Todd



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  Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
 
(...) "Not as useful" doesn't mean "not exactly what Matthew wants". *grin* (26 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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  Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
 
(...) Uh oh; now I'm confused again. I thought articles were rated, not groups. Assuming that the above represent articles ("lugnet.foo.bar" = one post in lugnet.foo?), then the rating shown on the web page would be: lugnet.foo.bar 64 lugnet.bar.baz (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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