Hello Jamie,
On Wednesday, September 27, 2000 at 08:20:53 GMT +0100 (which was 12:20 AM
where I live) witnesses say Jamie Dainton typed:
> Anyone receiving the message within one hour of it being created would
> be allowed to give it a score (this of course would involve
> modifications to the bat. Or an external program being called). After
> the hour is up the score can not be altered.
I don't see how such a system could possibly give appropriate
information on an international list such as this one. I'm posting
this at about 2 am my time. I'm going to bed, so I would not be able
to score my own message. Or perhaps you'll reply in a couple of
hours. I can't score your message. Does this mean that my opinion is
less valuable than someone who *happened* to read and score the
message within the hour?
> When a score update is called a section of TB! or an external
> program would query the SQL/Oracle database and return the final
> scores. These could be added as an extra column to the message
> window.
While this sounds interesting, why would you want to do this? Just
because the few people who happened to read and score the message
didn't like it, doesn't diminish the potential worth of a message. In
a moderated setting like this one, we don't need to worry much about
SPAM or flame wars (well, Marck, Allie (aka Curtis) and Wolfgang
might, but I don't). So what's the benefit of this system?
> If the dBase was coupled with a member reg system we could see the
> accumulated points of each member. Once a member has so many points
> all their posts are marked up one point automatically. TB! could then
> be configured for selective download, e.g. don't download mails with a
> score lower than 3.
Ok, so you're saying you don't want to download messages from people
you deem to be, for lack of a better term, useless? But isn't that a
decision only you can make? How does a centralised database help?
If I were a new user joining a group, I would feel intimidated with
such blatant judgement taking place. Your system would certainly cut
down on the new user questions, but I can't help but think that that's
not a good thing. But if you could enlighten me, I would welcome the
information. If this is getting too far off-topic, please feel free
to contact me on TBOT or off-list.
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Thanks for writing,
Januk Aggarwal
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under Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A
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