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Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 6 Apr 2000 05:00:56 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote:
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> 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
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> Uh oh; now I'm confused again. I thought articles were rated, not groups.
I think that's a typo... should be "lugnet.foo.bar:666 40 60 70 70 80"
:)
> I assume you don't want to calculate this on the server side to save CPU?
> (It seems like doing so would vastly simplify the client side; instead of
> needing to know about history and time and all that, it could just say:
> gimmie a list of what everything is now. Or as a compromise: gimmie a list
> of everything updated since I last checked.)
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> 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.)
well the way I see it (and Todd might prove me wrong) is that this way
the client has the freedom to do whatever it wants with the ratings...
such as have a separate default rating for each NG, or do some sort of
statistical magic with that data - histograms, StdDev, etc...
:)
Dan
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