From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 1:10 AM
Subject: voting
| If a system was implemented to allow people to vote on the relevance of a
thread
| in a list (mainly in the tech lists), would it be better to vote on the entire
| thread or on just a message in the thread? I'm thinking something like:
| must read 2 points
| important 1 point
| neutral 0 points
| off topic -1
| fight/debate -2
| The problem is that there are some members of CF-Talk who can turn a technical
| thread with an average score of 1 or 2 into one with a negative score rather
| easily. Do we penalize the entire thread because of these people or do we want
| people in some way.
| The idea is for people coming to the front of the archive to have a color
coded
| clue as to what threads are really important and which ones can be avoided.
| Most everything in CF-Community would be -1 or -2. :)
| More 'avoid pain' work.
| --
Actually, in my opinion, the best solution is already in effect and should not
require additional coding.
This should not be a democracy, it should be up to the list owner to police
relevancy as is currently being done. There is a posting policy in existence,
and it should be up to the list owner, who provides this FREE service to be able
to run it any way he/she chooses.
Implementing a scoring methodology, would permit an active few (depending on the
mood of the day) to bury topics that could be of interest to the more laid back
readers, and further allowing the active few to dominate the list. This form of
indirect flaming would not be a good thing, IMHO.
A little discipline among the posters would go a long way.
Doug
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