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PaulK
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Message 35 of 40 (85362)
02-11-2004 10:43 AM
Reply to: Message 32 by Mammuthus
02-11-2004 10:29 AM


There's a particular problem with creationists. Some of them will tend to rate anything they agree with as "excellent" no matter how poorly reasoned. On the other hand there is someone here who classifies posts he can't refute as "yada".
I woudl suggest that a working system would somehow need to take into account the reliability of the person providing the score.

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Message 36 of 40 (85364)
02-11-2004 10:47 AM
Reply to: Message 28 by Percy
02-11-2004 9:37 AM


Another thought
An overall scoring system has a couple of problems - firstly few people are going to be motivated to rate a post unless they feel reasonably strongly about it. Secondly any numeric system is going to include an unavoidable subjective element.
I would suggest a good/average/bad system as the only score with the possiblity of adding some sort of qualitative element (what is "good" or "bad" about the post).

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