well? How are they going to perceive their worth to the community? How
likely is the score going to be a completely impartial reflection of merit
and how often will it devolve into favoritism? I seem to recall some
personal attacks in Talk. Will this become an official mechanism for doing
that?
I can see why they might seem like a good idea, providing the ability to
separate the wheat from the chaff for someone scanning the archives. But I
don't see that as outweighing the abuse that I see at other places like
slashdot where there are constant personal battles and lots of personal
attacks. The scoring system seems to encourage more pettiness.
Personally, if some posts are good enough to merit being a definitive
answer, then maybe there should be a different archive for technical
solutions. Something where there are hand picked posts that cover what needs
to be known about a particular issue. And they are presented maybe in a FAQ
or some format. A good example of this is the MacFixit site. They run an
open forum, but they also have articles and reports that the editors cull
the forums to put together.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:59 AM
Subject: RE: testing again
> Just to throw my no cents in.
>
> It seems like you're talking about two different things: a rating system
> and a sorting system. I could see how both could be very useful.
>
> Being able to rate posts on "quality", say from one to five, would be
> nice (although there may be multiple gauges: quality, code provided,
> applicableness and so forth). I think this is what Michael was talking
> about.
>
> Dana's point (it seems to me) is more about sorting/categorizing. This
> would also be very useful - but perhaps moreso in the archive than in
> the "live" feed. For CF Talk being able to label messages as "XML",
> "bugs", "techniques", "third party tools", "general development", etc
> would be nice. Threads would gain their identity from the messages in
> them.
>
> In other words you might have messages on XML that rate a 1 (poor) and
> others that rate a 5 (great). You could search for only those that rate
> high in a certain category. Also this would naturally (I think)
> eliminate all of the "noise" that mailing lists generate ("me too"
> messages and other general comments on topics that are not in-and-of
> themselves useful for example).
>
> The category system, in particular, would be useful to deal with those
> rambling threads that change subject often: the subject rarely indicates
> the actual topic after the first dozen or so posts. ;^)
>
> Jim Davis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:53 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: testing again
>
> not to overheat your brain when you are in creative mode, but I could
> see a
> voting system for gross - games - pets - happenings (for vacation/job
> news
> etc) - politics - wierdness..... it's all ot but for example if I know a
> thread is all games I could skip it (for example), likewise someone who
> isnt interested in politics might be interested in know ing what to
> skip...
> this stuff is not all that apparent from the topic, often.
>
> Not that this is urgent :) Just tossing the idea out there since i had
> it.
>
> Dana
>
> > specific list (not this one as all posts are OT)can be added.
> >
> > > nice to see someone else up trying to pull ideas out of their brain.
> But
> > > erm, what are you testing exactly?
> > >
> >
> >
> _____
>
>
>
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