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Re: Selecting top stories
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 3 Nov 2000 20:34:08 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.
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> Then why did they bother to reply?
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
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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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9 Messages in This Thread: ![Selecting top stories -Bram Lambrecht (3-Nov-00 to lugnet.admin.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: Selecting top stories -Steve Bliss (3-Nov-00 to lugnet.admin.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/246.gif) ![Re: Selecting top stories -Dan Boger (3-Nov-00 to lugnet.admin.general)](/news/x.gif)
![](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/68.gif) ![Re: Selecting top stories -Matthew Miller (3-Nov-00 to lugnet.admin.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![You are here](/news/here.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: Selecting top stories -Matthew Miller (3-Nov-00 to lugnet.admin.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: Selecting top stories -Todd Lehman (3-Nov-00 to lugnet.admin.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/246.gif) ![Re: Selecting top stories -Matthew Miller (4-Nov-00 to lugnet.admin.general)](/news/x.gif)
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