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Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
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Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:21:22 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Jezek writes:
[...]
And finally, the whole reason for having a rating system is to show the most
interesting articles?

That's not the whole reason, no.  It's one important reason, though.


I thought that the purpose of having a Spotlight section was to do this.

That's one purpose of it, although the Spotlight section almost always ignores
auctions because it's more news- and MOC-focused.  Before the ratings, it was
also produced from only a single person's input (in 99% of the cases), which
is a downside both in overhead and accuracy.

--Todd



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  Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) This looks like a much better rating system. And I agree that any given article shouldn't be given a negative rating without further explanation. If someone continuously receives negative ratings for their posts, they might take it as their (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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