From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-05-09T18:46:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

Hi --

On Mon, 9 May 2005, jm wrote:

> Anyone care to give the new classifier a go at this? See if it can evaluate 
> the fitness of the threads for "useful content" or some other classification 
> system. I'll leave it to someone else's imagination as to what constitutes 
> fit. You could also then come up with a thread or post rank/score which could 
> be added up for each post the author makes. This would mean that people with 
> a good post score would be more likely to be read than those with a low post 
> score who would be ranked lower in such a weighted stats systems.

Please, let's not get into the judging, ranking, hierarchy, scoring
thing.  The lack of that kind of stratification continues to be one of
the great attractions of Ruby for me.  Let's leave that to Slashdot
and Perlmonks and other such sites.


David

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David A. Black
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