Rating journal entries

autarch on 2002-04-09T19:08:42

It'd be neat if we could apply moderation points to journal entries, as well as comments.

I cannot be the first one to think of this, I imagine.

Ok, pudge, hop to it ;)

(That is a joke, for the humor-impaired.)

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No, thanx

IlyaM on 2002-04-09T19:17:48

No, no, I don't want all my journal entries to be downvoted for my bad English :)

Re:No, thanx

autarch on 2002-04-09T19:40:10

If anyone did that hopefully they'd get a metamoderation smackdown.

Entries are supposed to be judged on content, not English proficiency.

Hmm

vek on 2002-04-09T20:12:57

It'd be neat if we could apply moderation points to journal entries...

Just out of curiosity, why do you think that would be neat? I'm just trying to get a sense of how that would improve one's use.perl.org experience.

I dunno, to be honest I don't mind one way or the other but I can't help thinking that 'journal moderation' may make some people think twice before posting. I like the fact that you can post random musings without a care in the world. What if people starting thinking 'hmm, wait a minute - maybe this post isn't interesting enough'.

Then again, maybe I'm reading way too much into this :-)

Re:Hmm

jmm on 2002-04-09T20:26:13

It could be useful if the points showed up in the journal list. An annotation like:
    (2,3)(1) (2)
could mean that there are two journal entries in the most recent day (same day as the most recent entry, whose timestamp is already noted) with ratings of 2 and 3, one entry the previous day with a rating of 1, and one entry from multiple days earlier (the blank means there was at least one day with no entry posted) with a rating of 2.

You could look at the list of journal entries and go to the highly rated entries for journals you might otherwise ignore, as well as still going to your favourites.