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Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
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Fri, 21 Apr 2000 19:10:28 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
like "+".  Let's see what people think about "!" after seeing it for a little
while...I seem to remember visiting a discussion group site once which used a
small orange "!" image to mark something that was important -- it didn't seem
to me like a "don't read this!" but obviously a "read this!".


For what it's worth, slrn uses ! to mark highly-scored (via my own score
file) articles. So I'm certainly used to it. (I thought it kind of odd of
slrn too, but no one asked me for feedback there....)

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  Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) Welp, space isn't really _that_ much of an issue compared to the symbol itself. All things being equal, a thinner character is better than a big fat character like "+". Let's see what people think about "!" after seeing it for a little (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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