On Wednesday 22 August 2007 04:23, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Michael Rogers wrote: > > Edgar Friendly wrote: > >> These lists might grow large, so some way of shortening may be useful > >> (only recently changed ratings, only posting BAD ratings n times/days). > > > > Instead of incorporating the list itself, every post could contain a key > > pointing to the user's ratings - only the users who marked that user > > GOOD would need to retrieve it, and only once per day or so. > > It's more complex, but maybe only use redirects for large rating lists. > I like the simplicity of including a few recent changes of rating to > posts. Referring to a rating list brings the problems of managing this > ratings list. If we don't have per-identity boardlists (and thus one > reference list per board), we'd need # users * # boards keys to request > to check for updated ratings, and there'd be huge overlap between these > (as much overlap as users who post on multiple boards). And if we do > have per-identity boardlists, we can have one rating key per identity, > but have to deal with updating that key, re-inserting it with new > ratings, blah blah. If we can include ratings in a users' post then > this extra hassle can be minimized. Maybe both - as many ratings as we > can fit in a single key with a redirect to the current master-list of > ratings for that user.
Why can't we just insert a global ratings list for that identity, indicate which we've seen on which boards, and include a pointer in each message?
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