> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l-bounces@;mccmedia.com]On > Behalf Of David Hobby > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 7:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Dinging plans (was RE: test)
... > Sorry, I guess that I missed the post where the dinging > system was described in detail. Were you thinking of some system > of ratings, like they use at Slashdot? You missed it because there hasn't been one. We're discussing ideas, not reality. David Brin suggested a system similar to "eviling" on AOL, which is for live chat. Thus, it couldn't work the same way. Ratings a la Slash wouldn't work very well, either, since people read mailing lists via a variety of applications, in which there is no standard way to accommodate ratings. > A system of that order sounds easy enough to implement. > All the subject lines from the list would come with an embedded > rating, like this: [-4]. Then people could either filter based > on the ratings, look at all the posts with ratings in mind, or > just ignore them. Well.... maybe. But then all you can have is a threshold, rather than a sliding scale. But maybe we could make something like that work. In fact, I was thinking that the first way to try this out would be to put the ratings into a header and let people figure out how to make use of them. That simplifies what I have to code. > We might want to > make it so that only established list accounts can ding. We > would certainly have to do that if we started getting lots of > dings from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"! No question in my mind that only subscribers can ding and the dings have to be associated with them individually. We could even develop a dinging reputation mechanism, but that raises the complexity quite a bit. On the other hand, it's the sort of thing I'm working on, sort of. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
