Re: [Bug-gne]Right/Wrong if editorship in GNE/Nupedia

[Mike Warren]

"Hook" <address@hidden> writes:
> Mike Warren wrote:

> > I agree. I think one of the most useful ways of classifying things
> > would be to let the audience do so: they could vote and say ``this
> > article should be in category XXX'' or ``this article is really
> > good'' or ``this article is useless'' and users could raise or
> > lower their ``trust'' of other users (i.e. ``I really agree with
> > the opinions of user X, so weight his opinions on articles more
> > heavily'').

> Mike, are you proposing this operates at a personal level ("I view Henry
> spencer as an internet deity") or that my view should influence other views?
> ("Because ..., so should you").

Individually; the Web site for such a classifier would obviously need
user accounts. One could use the service anonymously and perhaps take
advantage of the ratings, but the aforementioned fine-tuning could
only be done by logged-in people.

> The former is a *very* powerful mechanism for selecting material
> which matches whatever criteria an interested user may have, the
> latter would be difficult.

I agree.

> Although, I'd like the ability to learn what opinions other users
> may have so that I have the option of modifying my own selction
> criteria.

It might be useful to point out to users what the ``average'' rankings
(or whatever) of the articles are, just in case their
personally-adjusted one is way out of whack.

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