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Re: Selecting top stories
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 4 Nov 2000 03:12:43 GMT
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MATTDM@saynotospamMATTDM.ORG
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> > 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.
*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.)
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
Boston University Linux ---> http://linux.bu.edu/
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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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