Hi David
Am Mon, 13. February 2006 18:23 schrieb David Haller:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, houghi wrote:
> >Do you have a link to a posting and how it looks?
>
> http://lists.suse.com/archives/suse-linux/2003-Aug/0402.html
>
> Note that my site is temporarily unavailable.
>
> >It would be interested
> >to see how quoality posting is measured. Qantity posting is something I am
> >very much against. Especially because people might start posting just to
> >be in the top 100. That would be posting for the wrong reason.
>
> Quality is not measured. How could one?
>
> >Also I am sure you are aware that quantity is absolutely no measure of
> >how valuable postings are.
>
> Yes.

What stands against the argument that your stats are no proof of quality is 
the fact that (not only just in this example) it shows the posters I would 
rate amongst the best in quality. :-)
Not to forget that it gives a lot of other interesting information.

Nevertheless how or if a rating shold be done I would say that for new list 
members it is helpfull to see who belong to the good writers and who 
participate aat a list for a certain time. And as we all may remember having 
another star for good work was motivating already in kindergarten, which is a 
kind of rating I would say. Rating is a functionality of a lot of forum's and 
if it is done well it is helpfull and motivating for novice members.
At least much better than endless tofu and behaviour threads we have seen in 
the past.

May be it is a way that list members may rate the writers on their wiki member 
page (if there is one). This then may be extracted and posted to the list 
from time to time.

regards,
thomas

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