| [Motd] MOTD 11/Apr/2001: Ratings removed | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 11-Apr-2001 13:00 GMT by Christian Kemp | 10 comments
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Ever since I introduced a ratings system ten months ago, people have mostly been ignoring it. Since the very low usage doesn't justify the storage required, as well as the increase in average bandwidth per transfer, I'm removing all rating functionality as of today. As a result, the main page should now weigh in at about 4k less than before.
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| Comment 1 | Ralph | | 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Ben Yoris | | 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 3 | Christian Kemp | | 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 4 | Thomas Würgler | | 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 5 | Rob | | 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 6 | alt3reg0 | | 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 7 | Christophe Decanini | | 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
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| MOTD 11/Apr/2001: Ratings removed : Comment 8 of 10 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Christian Kemp on 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 7 (Christophe Decanini):
> Perhaps we need two rating system: one for information relevance and one for
> is it good news for you ? But this there is some chance that it would be too
> complicated.
The problem is that even with just one rating system, less than ten people were using it on average, which is hardly representative at all. :)
I saw a karma system on another website, where each news item has a given score to start with (and I'm thinking that this could also be something that we, as moderators, could possibly set to different values depending on our take on it) and then visitors can either add (+) or subtract (-) to that. This might make the system considerably easier, replacing five different choices with just two, and instead of giving a rating in percents, people could instinctively tell wether they like it (+) or not (-). Article quality would not be rated, just the fact whether people think this particular news item was worth the time it took them to read over it, or not. |
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