Posted on 01/16/2012 6:45:04 AM PST by Skeez
Many other forums/comment sections include a variety of rating systems (i.e. macrumors, reddit, yahoo...) I find some of these particularly helpful when navigating different posts. I often find myself scanning comments in an effort to gauge the overall sentiment of the freerepublic users on a particular story as I hold this forum in high esteem and value the opinions of those on this site. I also believe it would be nice to get feedback on our own posts, whether in the form of up-votes, thumbs, stars, etc.
Anyone else out there want some sort of simple comment rating system?
FR is slow enough as it is, much less having the bandwidth taken up by little graphical icons and tracking lines, multiplied by the hundreds of posters, lurkers and trolls that frequent this watering hole.........
I hope we continue to remain unique, and above the rest.
Post o' the day
Sounds like a quick route to groupthink.
FR is (nearly) unique; it's easily the most content-rich forum I have seen. If you have something to say, you say it. You don't hide behind cutesy little icons.
It works. Don't screw it up.
ob·jur·gate [ob-jer-geyt, uhb-jur-geyt] verb (used with object), -gat·ed, -gat·ing.
to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
I learned a new word today.
Thank you.
we already have a rating system. hell, if it’s really bad other Freeprs will eat me alive.
"Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I have not had my rubber."
(It's even funnier when you realize that the following line *also* occurs in the same story:
"What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice read over the extraordinary announcement.)
But the number one obscure British literary quote is from (who else?) G.K. Chesterton's The Club of Queer Trades:
Basil smiled at me. `You didn't know,' he said, `that I had a practical brother. This is Rupert Grant, Esquire, who can and does all there is to be done. Just as I was a failure at one thing, he is a success at everything. I remember him as a journalist, a house-agent, a naturalist, an inventor, a publisher, a schoolmaster, a---what are you now, Rupert?'
`I am and have been for some time,' said Rupert, with some dignity, `a private detective, and there's my client.'
Cheers!
I remember when you first started posting because it was so impressive considering your age. :)
There are certain posters on FR whose opinion I hold in high regard in certain matters, but those are probably fairly few. The aggregate score means little to me.
That said, a system of "polling" on some questions might be interesting, and a way to keep it out of the threads.
Nope. I rather like making my own decisions. I don’t need some “overseer” telling me how important I should take someone’s comment. There are enough liberals out there trying to tell us what to think.
Darn near 30 now....amazing how time flies.
Dunning–Kruger effect
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. Actual competence may weaken self-confidence, as competent individuals may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. As Kruger and Dunning conclude, “the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others” (p. 1127).
The effect is about paradoxical defects in cognitive ability, in oneself and others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Your post is a case in point.
We don’t need hordes of mental incompetents “grading” other mental incompetents, neither of which group can conjugate and post a coherent, rational thought with plain text and can only express their feeeeelings by squashing “Like” or “Dislike” buttons.
And why a “Like” button. Why not a “Dislike” button. And then a “Hate” button. Which would require a “Perverse Idiot Warning” button and then a “This Poster Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Play With Sharp Objects” button... ad infinitum.
Why the constant need to “fix” something that works so well that there is nothing else like it on the whole global interwebs?
Turn this haven into an “It’s all about me” site..
No thanks
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