On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:35:23 -0700, "Tom Nakashima"
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>Anyone understand these ratings?
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>http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.tech/about?hl=en
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>-tom
Dear Tom,
If you mean the "Top Posters", those are top ten accounts according to
how many posts per month or since the newsgroup began.
Peter Chisholm is first with a combined total of over 19,000 posts,
while Jobst Brandt lags behind with two accounts that add up to over
15,000 posts.
Modesty (and an uneasy feeling that in some cases quantity is not the
same as quality) forbids any mention of third place.
But you probably mean the star ratings column here:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.tech/topics?hl=en
Those are just hit-or-miss ratings for the thread as a whole as
submitted by anyone who takes the trouble to rate any individual post
in the thread.
You can click on each poster in the monthly top 10.
Compare the total number of ratings, which is near the top.
Then compare how many threads in which the poster has been rated (the
star column, mostly empty for most of the top 10).
One poster will stick out like a sore thumb.
Browsing a few of the poster's starred threads to see the posts that
were praised will suggest how silly the easily manipulated star rating
system is.
Cheers,
Carl Fogel