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Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?
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Fri, 21 Apr 2000 14:49:56 GMT
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Richard Parsons skrev i meddelandet ...
Todd Lehman wrote a bunch of worthy stuff about the rating system.

5.  Have you ever felt victimized indirectly by seeing someone else's post
get a high rating?  How often?

Good grief no.  I can't understand how I could feel that.  What, jealous of
someone else's apparent success?

If that's how you see the ratings ("someone else's success"), I think the
system should be turned off at once. I thought the ratings were supposed to
help find readworthy (is that a word?) posts, not signaling 'success' or
'failure' to individuals!

[Side remark]
The lugnet traffic seems heavily skewed into .admin right now, in this
download I found only one group with more than 10 messages since my last
download (about 16 hours ago) - guess which one!
(Of course, this observation is based on the 19 groups I read, not all of
lugnet)

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Anders Isaksson, Sweden
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  Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?
 
(...) I think Richard was trying to guess what I meant by my question. My question was meant to "amplify" and address the worst possible imaginary concern. (...) That's correct. It's being changed to reflect that more closely. (...) Yes, this is an (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?
 
Todd Lehman wrote a bunch of worthy stuff about the rating system. Lugnet hosts an amazing variety of visitors. From my background, the rating system is fine. If I want to rate, I will (which I generally don't). If I want to pay attention to other (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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