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Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 21 Apr 2000 01:02:19 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, John Koob writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> > 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?
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> 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.
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? If not, what did you mean by it?
> Ratings would help with the 'spotlight' feature, which I find
> valuable.
Agreed; the temporary "top 40" seems very useful.
-Shiri
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