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I'm not against this. Is this something other readers would like to see?

Edit: I also agree with Eugenia below. People do often get polarized and vote by agreement vs. quality.

Edited 2007-02-12 22:07

I provided commentary and suggestions about such a system (Good/Bad Journalism) but the rest of the team didn't provide any feedback on the ideas).

"Recommendations are ambiguous; What part of this am I recommending? The article, the linked article, the idea or event? And who am I recommending to? Why can I not-recommend something? A better way of doing this would be to express in the shortest way possible something to say about the article, that's not self-centric. I think articles should have links for "Journalism? Good or Bad". Thus we can state simply if we feel that an article is misinformed, trolling, or of poor quality; but importantly, it's asking us to rate the quality of the news, and not just whether I like something or not - because as we've seen on digg, poor quality articles get on the front page because of the abiguity of 'Digging' something."

I don't think re-organising the order of articles based on user response is the right thing to do, but the 'recommend' system is very weak and pointless atm.

People do often get polarized and vote by agreement vs. quality.

It has crossed my mind a few times that the "Score:" part of a post should be split into
"Agree:" and "Quality:" (or suitable names).

I don't personally agree with this. Besides, the articles will be out in the open via RSS, so even if locally an article is modded down, people will still have it in their RSS readers.

It will also be abused depending if a person is anti-apple or pro-apple (for example). Modding articles is a bad idea. OSNews is not digg.

Edited 2007-02-12 22:06

I agree, I would rather be the judge of what I think is worth reading rather than my peers deciding for me. If it's news it's news, besides Thom's PDF clearly states that the goal of OSNews is not to be biased so no reason to open the doors for it and we all know deep down someone is going to mod down stuff other folks think is interesting and worth a read.

'nuff said.

Digg has this problem because people who aren't trusted can start voting things willy-nilly. This encourages wide-spread abuse. Here, it would go south immediately; especially since the the OS debate is such a polarized argument.

Modding articles is a bad idea. OSNews is not digg.

I completely agree. Digg is good at what it does, OSNews should keep doing its own thing.

I personally think the recommendation feature should stay as it is.