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Subject: 
Re: Selecting top stories
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:23:56 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.orgSPAMLESS
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Steve Bliss <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote:

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.  Sometimes, they feel just the opposite
way.

Then why did they bother to reply?


Instead of changing the system, I'd rather encourage members to rate
messages they feel are rate-worthy.

I'd do it, except that I read LUGnet with a newsreader. I started hacking
rating support into slrn, but then I got distracted.



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Matthew Miller                     --->                 mattdm@mattdm.org
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  Re: Selecting top stories
 
(...) 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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  Re: Selecting top stories
 
(...) 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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