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Subject: 
Re: Selecting top stories
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Sat, 4 Nov 2000 03:12:43 GMT
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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.)

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