Re: Irregulars Inquiry: how to judge unique, rivalrous item

2005-11-14 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:09 PM Sunday 11/13/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:39 PM Sunday 11/13/2005, Robert J. Chassell wrote: For example, do you know whether the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States was born in 1747, 1755, or 1757; do you

Irregulars Inquiry: how to judge unique, rivalrous item

2005-11-13 Thread Robert J. Chassell
On the Internet, how does one provide a mechanism for judging a certain kind of unique item and reporting the results? You can build trust for a online news story or encyclopedia article: give some `points' for a few days to a regular and ask that person to allocate them in judgements of news

Re: Irregulars Inquiry: how to judge unique, rivalrous item

2005-11-13 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:39 PM Sunday 11/13/2005, Robert J. Chassell wrote: For example, do you know whether the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States was born in 1747, 1755, or 1757; do you know about his birthdate controversy? No, but I know I have the same problem (although the dates are

Re: Irregulars Inquiry: how to judge unique, rivalrous item

2005-11-13 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:39 PM Sunday 11/13/2005, Robert J. Chassell wrote: For example, do you know whether the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States was born in 1747, 1755, or 1757; do you know about his birthdate controversy? No, but I know I have the same problem

Re: Irregulars Inquiry: how to judge unique, rivalrous item

2005-11-13 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:09 PM Sunday 11/13/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:39 PM Sunday 11/13/2005, Robert J. Chassell wrote: For example, do you know whether the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States was born in 1747, 1755, or 1757; do you know about his birthdate