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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 02:51:49 GMT
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Shiri Dori wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.admin.general, John Koob writes:
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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.
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> 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?)
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> Is that what you meant by sample size?
Yes.
It doesn't really matter what X is, but 4 or 5 seems reasonable
to start with.
--
John
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