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Re: Selecting top stories
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 3 Nov 2000 23:34:45 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> Steve Bliss <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote:
> > 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.
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> Sure, but say there's twenty people who did this....
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
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 | | Re: Selecting top stories
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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)
| | | Re: Selecting top stories
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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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