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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 10:52 AM EDT |
no...we don't.
Groklaw is not a popularity contest[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: stegu on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 11:25 AM EDT |
No. Everyone gets a say here, and anonymity
is accepted. I like that. I don't think modding
of comments would serve the kind of community
that is Groklaw. There is one "modding threshold",
to hide anonymous comments, but I don't use it.
For most people and for most aspects of life, the
truly important things are neither popularity nor
exposure, but those are what social media and the
blogosphere have been focusing on almost exclusively.
It's sick, because it encourages mindless and
destructive behavior, like exposing far too much of
your private life in public, saying and doing utterly
stupid things just to get attention, and losing
yourself in what others are doing instead of doing
something yourself.
(And with that I am done with my bitter rants for
today. Thank you.)
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- Bad idea - Authored by: rocky on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 12:00 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Kilz on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 12:31 PM EDT |
I could see a ranking system based on importance and the
quality of the post as long as no comments are removed or
hidden. Perhaps if the ranking just moved the top post to the
top of the comments section. We also do not need the labels
like "funny" that /. uses.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 12:56 PM EDT |
1. If anyone wants a low S/NR, it's really easy to get from here to the
computing tabloid that is slashdot and post all the Bamboozle-Shill-Flacks humor
you care to. I prefer a higher S/NR, thanks.
2. I'd be burning all my mod points on marking the predictable MSFT ad hominem
blather "redundant" and/or "irrelevant". How does cracking
wise help anyone grok law?
3. slashcode sucks badly enough as it is and it would be wonderful if PJ
would/could replace it with a sane, modern blogging platform. Not that I expect
that anytime soon, since groklaw was IIRC essentially on hiatus until Oracle
brought the case.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: jbb on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 01:12 PM EDT |
| Maybe we could use a rating system that is not like Slashdot's. There are often
times I want to give a post a +1 but I don't want to post a reply just for
that.
There are rating systems besides the one used at Slashdot. I would
prefer to see a rating system here where all logged-in members can rate posts
but you can only give posts a +1. There are no negative ratings and there are
no rating types like there are on Slashdot. The only thing the rating would
affect would be a number that shows how many times a post got a +1 from someone.
I think this would actually be useful here because it would be an
additional form of feedback for people who write posts. It would also be a
quick and easy way to acknowledge corrections or short replies without having to
reply to the reply.
The technical hurdle would be a table in the database
that has a row for each moderation made. It would contain the post ID and the
user ID. It would be used to prevent users from giving more than one +1 to a
single post. I would imagine that if something like this was not already built
in to the system being used here then it might be too much trouble to try to add
it.
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Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in
— the one that we think is reality.
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