To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.admin.generalOpen lugnet.admin.general in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Administrative / General / 6266
    Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating) —Shiri Dori
   Hey Todd, I've been avoiding a direct and complete opinion about the rating system till now, mainly because I wasn't sure of my stand on it. But now I know where I stand... here're my answers: (...) This is a good idea and I'll be glad to ee it (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
   
        Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating) —Matthew Miller
     (...) [snip] (...) Good point -- this is kind of what I was trying to say, although I'd taken it to a further extreme. (Even less choices.) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman
   (...) That's what the averaging effect is for -- to smooth that out. If the system also could learn what you liked, you might find that helpful. (That's a long way down the road, though.) (...) Will you still feel that way when there are 4x the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
   
        Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating) —Matthew Miller
     (...) Smoothing what out, though? How does the system distinguish between "0: I like posts about robots, but not in .castle" and "0: not interesting to me", or "60: kinda funny if you're in the right mood" and "60: contains some useful information (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman
     (...) It can't (and doesn't actually need to) distinguish that so greatly -- the bottom line (to it) would be that you disfavor posts about robots in castle and things that are kinda funny or contain some useful info. (...) I'm very skeptical about (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman
     (...) Whoops -- :) -- I meant to say, "...that you disfavor posts about robots in castle and _favor_ (somewhat) things that are kinda funny or contain some useful info." But actually it would just look at the statistical correlation between your (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating) —Shiri Dori
   (...) Well- yeah. But at the current amounts of rating (most posts get no more than two ratings) the averaging effect doesn't smooth much out. I totally forgot to mention in my long post that I actually stopped regarding a rating of a post as a (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR