| [Motd] Ratings: a reminder | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 08-Aug-2000 07:40 GMT by Christian Kemp | 10 comments
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I just wanted to point out that the ratings should be used to rate the overall quality of an article (writing style, grammatical correctness, language, whether it is on topic and relevant, etc.), and not whether it is good news or bad news (ie. whether you like the overall idea of the news item).
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| Posted by Seehund on 08-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 5 (David):
Don't you think that the way the ratings are intended to be used is more useful?
I'd much rather make up my own mind about whether a piece of news is "good" or bad", and if I see that several people who read the story before me think that a submission is well worth a read I know that it'll be easier for me to make up my own mind about the positivity/negativity of the news if I read that specific submission (maybe because it's clear, has good links, has insightful personal comments, provides other useful info or whatever). Or that the news are simply important - I'd give a three-word submission about Amiga Inc's bankruptcy a "5" even though such news would be truly tragic.
On the other hand I don't think the ratings are very important right now when not so many submissions are "concealed" behind a Read-More-link (or that the visitor can choose to display only submissions with a certain minimum score, á la Slashdot) so I tend to read all submissions anyway. It's not a painfully huge lot of submissions after all... ;) |
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