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Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
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Date: 
Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:51:45 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> First way:  If two people like a message a lot (and, say, each mark it 100),
> then it has a lower composite score than, say, several dozen people all
> marking it 100.  This is because of the automatic softener-vote[1] by the

Yes, I understand that, but what about two people liking a message a lot vs.
several dozen saying that it's mediocre? Those are quite different.

> Second way:  The coloring of the rating symbols is two-dimensional.  Its input

Ah. Yes, that's much better. (Does MS Win still only use 20 colors for text,
or can you use anything now?)


> words, the color saturation is how seriously to take the rating.  It's subtle,
> but it's like that on purpose so that, basically, the more red you see, the
> more your eye is drawn to it.  (Red, biologically, has the strongest draw of
> all colors, for non-colorblind humans.)

Red also has connotations of "Warning", "Stop", and "Negative", doesn't it?

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  Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
 
(...) Two people liking a message a lot would have a composite score of 60 to 70. Several dozen saying that it's mediocre would have a composite score of 0 to 30, depending on how you define "mediocre." A low score with a lot of input shows up dark (...) (27 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
 
(...) There are two ways, currently -- but they're designed to work without getting in the way (rather than to be obvious). First way: If two people like a message a lot (and, say, each mark it 100), then it has a lower composite score than, say, (...) (27 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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