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Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
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Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:33:36 GMT
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A couple more thoughts:

- Anytime you have a way to compare reactions about things, there is
opportunity for people to feel that their contribution wasn't valued.
Note that we have someone currently bummed out that they got a lukewarm
reaction to their web site.

- Any "scoring" system without feedback will be frustrating. I have to
admit that I'm curious as to why my post to lugnet.admin.terms about
"where is Waldo" posts got a high rating by one person, but has had no
responses. Obviously if you get a low rating, you're going to wonder why
(seeing the discussion here, I do know why the postings of mine which
got low ratings got them).

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Frank Filz

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  Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
 
Some miscellaneous unordered thoughts: - I would be inclined to say that the rating system is definitely harmfull. I have not seen anyone say "wow, this rating system just helped me read through 2 weeks of posts and catch up on all the important (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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