On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:35:14AM +0000, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > * "Vocal minority" dominates "silent majority" by contributing a > > disproportionate amount of list traffic, [...] > > Note that voting can have a similar drawback -- in that if you've got > enough like-minded people voting for a particular viewpoint (eg, "Joe > Random sucks, give him what for!") people with a different viewpoint > (eg, "stop berating people, argh") aren't going to bother voting ("the > score's already +50, why bother with a -1?"). This seems to happen on > digg a fair bit. Probably someting to be aware of.
Contrary to digg, a discussion offers multiple opportunities to vote because there are several messages and each one defends a particular viewpoint. Would it make sense to use positive rating for the content of messages ("me too") and negative rating to tag messages which have been too rude/impolite or even off-topic ? That way there's no “battle” between +1 and -1 raters. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org