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Todd, Since most members don't seem to rate messages very often, I had an idea to help pick top stories...Can you keep track of how many replies a message has? If so, then a lot of replies to a fairly recent message (fuzzy sorting again) would (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I've noticed that most messages get very few ratings. But I'm not sure that counting followups can replace ratings, because someone posting a response to a message doesn't indicate that they feel the message is important or newsworthy. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think that's a great idea.... in the web interface, add the vote pulldown menu to it, so you can vote with the same "POST" request... for email and NNTP (which currently can't vote, and can't even see the votes), allow either a custom header (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Then why did they bother to reply? (...) I'd do it, except that I read LUGnet with a newsreader. I started hacking rating support into slrn, but then I got distracted. (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) They might very much dislike the earlier post, and they'd give it a very low rating. Maybe they discovered a typo that they couldn't resist pouncing on. Maybe they like to type a lot. Steve (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sure, but say there's twenty people who did this.... (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It wouldn't matter -- a zero or "- - -" vote is an "undo" or "null" vote. That is, only "Highlight" and "Spotlight" get counted; submitting "- - -" is like not submitting anything. This prevents things from being marked down super-low. --Todd (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) *puzzled* I think you missed the context, which was that maybe messages should get marked up slightly just for having a lot of responses. (I'm not convinced that this would really be a good thing, but it's an interesting idea.) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Perhaps if you provided some side benefit to voting, more people would do it. I know that I voted a lot with the older system, because there was a lot finer gradation. But with the new system, I can't remember the last time I decided an (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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