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Subject:	Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Thu, 20 Apr 2000 23:59:05 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... <snip> > Specific personal questions: > > 1. How would you feel (better or worse) if the numeric values of the • ratings > were not displayed to you unless you specifically requested (via some • simple > setting) that they be displayed to you? I think most users would activate this setting, if available. That is, it wouldn't likely solve the problems. > 2. How would you feel (better or worse) if the numeric values of the • ratings > were not displayed ever to anyone but collected and used by the server only > for internal calculations, hotlist generation, and personal recommendations > to you? One idea is that ratings continue to be collected as they are now, but conditionally display the numerical results. That is, only display the net rating result for a post if: - the sample size is greater than a certain threshold (say 4) - the rating is greater than a threshold (say 70) In this way, noteworthy posts would stand out. Also, the ability to down-rate a message still exists, but there is little chance of offending the poster. If the above admin-set thresholds are not met for a post, only the number of submitted ratings would be displayed. > 3. How would you feel (better or worse) if the ratings were not even > collected and collated in the first place? (i.e. the destruction of the > feature altogether) Ratings would help with the 'spotlight' feature, which I find valuable. John (remove the obvious to reply)

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		Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
(...) That's a good idea! I'm not sure what you mean by "sample size"; but I think that adding another condition would be useful: -Only display the rating if more than X people have rated it (X = ? Perhaps 5?) Is that what you meant by sample size? (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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		Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
All, It seems at this point that the article rating feature -- intended to help -- is actually causing more harm than good to the community. It's difficult to gauge how much harm is being done when opinions are so varied, but it's clear that (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!

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