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Re: Selecting top stories
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 6 Nov 2000 04:35:41 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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.
> >
> > Sure, but say there's twenty people who did this....
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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.
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> --Todd
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 article should be highlighted or spotlighted.
So two suggestions: perhaps have a step below highlight, and one between
highlight and spotlight, to give people who aren't willing to vote an
article as being *that* significant, something to do anyway. A lot of in
between votes are better than none. Note this would in no way constitute an
article being 'marked down'.
Secondly, provide another benefit to voting. One example, everytime I voted
with the old system, Lugnet would remember that I had read that article, and
it didn't matter what machine I was on, I never had to guess whether I had
previously read an article I voted for. That was a tangible benefit that
encouraged me to vote. Even a null vote would be meaningful for this. But
other benifits are also possible.
--
David Schilling
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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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