ratings on Google Groups

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Has anyone noticed the new feature on Google Groups that allows you to
rate a message from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). It even works on Usenet
messages through Google Groups. Obviously a proprietary feature only
available if you access Usenet through GG, not if you're accessing it
directly.

Yousuf Khan
 
Has anyone noticed the new feature on Google Groups that allows you to
rate a message from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). It even works on Usenet
messages through Google Groups. Obviously a proprietary feature only
available if you access Usenet through GG, not if you're accessing it
directly.
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Oh, goodie! A popularity contest coming to the Usenet near you. Who's
going to be voted Miss Congeniality of .chips?
 
Oh, goodie! A popularity contest coming to the Usenet near you. Who's
going to be voted Miss Congeniality of .chips?
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And I hope for World Peace! ^^
 
Not sleeping. Been explaining to some folk about how to mistreat
rubber vibration-isolating fan mounts. Yes, mistreat.
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Ah, you're going on in an S&M group somewhere. I guess you aren't a Miss
Congeniality candidate, after all! ;-)
 
Keith said:
...and we have a *WINNER* (it was a toss-up between you an Felg, but
apparently he's sleeping somewhere). ;-)
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Not sleeping. Been explaining to some folk about how to mistreat
rubber vibration-isolating fan mounts. Yes, mistreat.
 
Oh, goodie! A popularity contest coming to the Usenet near you. Who's
going to be voted Miss Congeniality of .chips?
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Oo-h-h, ya mean kinda like Microsoft MVPs? I can't wait... to see who is
Google MVP of the month.;-)
 
How come they never say they hope for a World War?
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Well, there's this bunch of people who believe the only way to get
World Peace is by eliminating human beings... =X
 
While I generally agree with Keith's POV on the matter, I could see it
being pretty useful in some NGs. This one has very little spam and
very few cranks. There are some NGs which could use a system to
distinguish between posts from people who contribute and crazies who
just pollute the group. If you want to see a good example of one, look
at JSH from sci.math:

http://www.crank.net/harris.html

Moderation is obviously not possible on non-moderated NGs, but perhaps
this is a step in the right direction.

DK
 
Oo-h-h, ya mean kinda like Microsoft MVPs? I can't wait... to see who is
Google MVP of the month.;-)
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And the grand prize (drum roll) - a brand new BMW. To claim, Google
for BMW home page ;-)))))))))))))))

NNN
 
David said:
While I generally agree with Keith's POV on the matter, I could see it
being pretty useful in some NGs. This one has very little spam and
very few cranks. There are some NGs which could use a system to
distinguish between posts from people who contribute and crazies who
just pollute the group. If you want to see a good example of one, look
at JSH from sci.math:

http://www.crank.net/harris.html

Moderation is obviously not possible on non-moderated NGs, but perhaps
this is a step in the right direction.
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I've noticed the same sort of thing in the sci.physics newsgroups.

Yousuf Khan
 
Yousuf said:
I've noticed the same sort of thing in the sci.physics newsgroups.
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That's a shame. One thing I like about comp.arch and this NG is that
no matter how different opinions are very few people are truly cranks.

DK
 
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