[Theforum] Discussion: Ratings in "black-list" categories

Madhu Menon webguru at vsnl.net
Sat Feb 2 13:27:21 CST 2002


At 12:52 AM 2/3/2002, Michele Foster wrote:

>The thought is .. certain categories on evolt should not be rated .. as the
>ratings don't provide any "real" benefit to the community members nor to an
>author's quality of work.  The categories in question include:

[snip]

>Thoughts, concerns, objections, etc. ??

I heartily support getting rid of the ratings for the categories you
mentioned, especially "News". By their nature, news articles are primarily
pointers to stories elsewhere on the Web, so what exactly am I rating?

Usually, people end up rating the story that's been linked. For example,
someone will post a news article that announces, "[Product] version 6.5
released" and the happy users of [Product] will rate the news announcement
high. It's misleading and hence unnecessary. If we had a team of reporters
doing original news reporting, it would have made sense, but not with what
we have.

Regards,

Madhu
PS: I have observed that weekends are not good times to ask for
suggestions, objections, etc. List traffic is low and people who have lives
(which doesn't include me) are out doing fun stuff. :)


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