¡Hello!
¿How fare you?
Since I want to reply to all responses without writing a a gzillion
posts, I write 1 response to all. I shall not name names because I always
forget to list the name of good contributors, thus accidentally ignoring them,
and when I give a bad post as an example and cite the poster, it leads to bad
blood:
0.
¿What is with all of the people top-posting?:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080113211450/http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html
It is a good thing that “Weird Al” Yankovic is not on this list because
he caps brain-dead me-too AOLers like Old Yeller:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos
1.
I received some strange suggestions for ranges:
* Negative -10 to positive +10
* Negative -5 to positive +5
* Negative -100 to positive +100
* 1 to 5
* 1 to 10
* 1 to 100
If we shall use 2-digit numbers like 10, we might as well use all
2-digit numbers up to 99. Otherwise, one should just go to 9 and stop. If we
have 100, we might as well go to 999 or stop at 99.
Stopping at 5 makes no sense. If we use 1-digit numbers, we should use
all 1-digit numbers.
The ranges starting with 1 have 3 terrible things wrong them:
0. If we use positive real number, ¡I want to give that fascist a
0! ¡Giving that jerk 1 point is 1 point too many!
1. If we use a certain sized digit-range, we should use all of the
range.
2. With the ratings starting at 1, the voters might get confused
and rank instead of rate with the best candidates rated at 1 and the worst at n
which is backwards.
This is my preferred range:
Negative -99 to positive +99
2.
Some believe that we should use adjectives instead of letters because
the voters understand that better. This may be true in France, but is
_“*NOT*”_ true in the United States Of America:
In the United States Of America, over the course of a dozen years,
teachers grade students on the scale of from A+ to F- over 10 thousand times.
Americans have had this scale pounded into their heads so many times that they
understand it all too well.
I imagine that, for Americans, using adjectives should be harder than
using the alphabetical scale of A+ though F-.
3.
1/4 of the population of England should get grades in the Fs because
they are illiterate and innumerate. ;-) Just kidding. We have our problems
with education in America too.
¡Peace!
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