Re: New rating scheme at K5

Erik Moeller wrote:
> 
> What I find funny is that once you have goal-oriented discussions rather
> than mere exchanges of opinion, rating systems become mostly useless
> and, in fact, potentially harmful. I would not want to rate comments on
> Wikipedia because my interest is to work with people, not to grade them.
> On discussion sites like K5, threads are essentially contests, and the
> ratings express that -- the comment with the highscore "wins".
> 

I agree with you about that. The challenge on K5 is to figure out what
to do with discussion that is generally not goal-oriented. Having
everyone working toward some common goal makes a whole lot of aspects of
online collaboration a lot simpler to manage. People considering
launching new projects in the field might do well to keep that in mind.


--R
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Rusty Foster : [email protected] : http://www.kuro5hin.org

The future is history that hasn't happened yet.
                               --Bruce Sterling

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