Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Feb 2007 21:15 UTC
After weeks of hard work, I would like to introduce you to version 1.0 of the "OSNews Style Guide: Rules and Guidelines for Publishing and Participating on OSNews" [.pdf]. Read on for some small notes on what this actually means.
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Member since:2005-06-28
This was the original take, look here for example:
http://osnews.com/story.php/13241/Interview-with-Synfigs-Robert-Qua...
It didn't work well. People were only "Voting" for the articles they served their own zealotry purposes for.
This is why we removed the "voting" thing, and we introduced the "Recommend" thing. This is not going to change back.
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2005-09-28
I agree. With current system, I might think that an article is well written and worth reading but disagree with the sentiment of the writer. I might want everyone to read to such an article so that they will debate the issue in the comments section. However, given such an article, I might be reluctant to 'recommend' the article and to endorse it by associating my name with it.
Perhaps a rating system with more than one field is the answer?
Also, when the system was introduced, I never bothered with it as I assumed that 'recommending' the article would mean emailing my recommendation to someone. Perhaps 'vote' would be a better term than 'recommend'.