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  • Nocturne
    Sep 26 9:22 AM 2005
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    On the My Page there is a part that says something like this;

    “My (insert number) comments are rated 1/0/2.0/3.0/4.0/5.0 on average.”

    If the number has that decimal point that means that the number is rounded to the tenth place (If I remember my math correctly).

    So it would make more sense to have just 1 or 3 or 5, without the decimal point.

    Or is that something that will be polished out with time to reflect the actual average, rather than the whole number estimate?

    I ask this because, with that as it is, it seems that a person could have a 4.4 or 4.8 (unless the latter is rounded up) but still have a 4.0. It’s inexact, dealing people into nice clean-cut categories…

    Or maybe I’m looking into it too much.


  • Terry-too
    September 26, 2005
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    I have wondered about comment-rating too. Is it related in any way to the star-award system? Or is the main criterion length? If so, I’d be getting sixes. Quality—that is looking not only at content, but at its technical aspects too? And in the case of simple comments, having check-marked the not-for-points box, do they bring down the score?

    When I first started, it was rated a consistent 5 for quite a while. Not that it matters much, but maybe I should feel glad it did not fall below 4.
    Sigh.


    • Nocturne
      September 26, 2005
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      I think it’s the star-system, not the length,

      Which is a bit unfair since if you like a “your poems teh kewl” comment, you’ll give it a five and if you’re offended by a “Your rhyme if forced in lines 1-5 and ‘cant’ should be can’t in line3…” you’ll give that a one…I got a low score for a really detailed (not mean!) comment I left so I’m still somewhat steamed about that. But other than that I’ve pretty much got what I deserved.

      I guess, overall, people will look at quality of the comment, whether it helped them or not and star it fairly enough.

      I don’t think the not-for-point comments get a “rate the comment” option, but I’m not sure…


      • Terry-too
        September 26, 2005
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        Having received some of your “really detailed” comments, those are what I want! I have started to give 5 stars only if they can reach the high bar you set! (And I will get whapped around the face and ears for saying so. De rigeur ici, vraiement!) I got two stars last week for what I meant as praise. English is such an imprecise language.

        How could help be mean? Don’t be miffed about the low score; it tells a lot more about the sender than about you.

        That sender was convinced there were no errors.

        I mean, there you were trying to make her put all those mistakes into her poem!
        .
        I know that was not so, but there have been teachers out there who had not been taught. After the great political exodus of our best teachers, the headline said that to fill all the empty classooms in the province, there were 1800 unqualified teachers in our schools. If it is breathing, give it a job. Some were great, and went on to get qualifications, mind you, but I stood rooted to the the hall-tiles not believing the mish-mosh one of them was teaching. The kids are left with the results.

        Our language shows how good our teachers were.

        I am not here bashing teachers. Enough of that is being done already. (For the one or two who don’t know, I have been a teacher all my life. Tutoring now. Picked up another student today, to prevent falling through the cracks.)

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