On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:14:19AM -0800, Nick Arnett wrote: > 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.
That is not so. Anyone who has capability for simple keyword filtering on the subject: line of emails could do it. Just set it up so posts have, for eg. (like slashdot) one of 5 codes in the subject. Of course, your script would need to remove any "forged" codes in the subject before pre-pending its own code, but that shouldn't be too tough. The codes could be as simple as "1c1", "2c2", etc, something that wouldn't normally show up in a subject: line. This would be FAR superior to the dinging that has been described previously, since each person can decide what they want to read (and when they want to read it). > 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. Ah, great idea, better than my subject: line idea! Also, instead of having 5 levels like slashdot you could have whatever you want, 2, 3, etc. For example, you could have "dinged" or "not-dinged" codes, to simplify filtering. But that is probably too simple, I would suggest at least 3 codes meaning roughly: "well-though-of", "somewhat annoying", "real asshole". Dings could be any real number that people decide (but I still think absolute minimum of 1 ding cost to ding someone else), and your script could translate ding-threshold-levels into one of the 3 code levels. > 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. Slashdot "Karma"? Slashdot "meta-moderation"? :-) -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
