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Posted on October 23, 2001

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by Jasen James (profjj)

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Jasen James

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User since: March 31, 2001

Last login: February 02, 2006

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I think it would be a great idea to show how many people have read an article, to compliment the rating. In addition to say an article having a high rating, say 50 people could have read the article, but it's only rated by 3 people. These other 47 people could have not rated for a number of reasons, of which the number one would be time it would take to log in, then rate the article.

In addition to complimenting the rating and making it more relevant, it would also help someone to find out an interesting article as well, in addition to highest rated, and most discussed, not to mention that alot of articles are rated by 1 person and in soem cases, a high rating. If an article is rated by only 1 person with say 4, and been read by 100 people or times (you may decide), then it gives it more weight.

What could be even better, but you see like how there is a Highest Rated Articles column, well then one more sidebar piece - "Most Read Articles".

Something to think about.

Jasen James [profjj] works as a Web Application Developer and IT Consultant for Computer & Business Services, a small company which he owns, in the tropical Caribbean island of St. Lucia - "Paradise on Earth"., which is host to the now infamous annual St. Lucia Jazz Festival.

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Submitted by mwarden on October 23, 2001 - 17:29.

yeah, we've thought about this. In fact, it was one of the items on our LOTTD (list of things to do) during CodeFest. We ended up not implementing it.

We mainly didn't think many people would use it. Maybe we were wrong. The other problem is that it's too easily manipulated. IOW, if I wanted my articles to show up in that sidebar, all I'd have to do is hit refresh a couple hundred times. Maybe people wouldn't do that, but it's definitely very easy to do if one decided to do so.

Thanks for the suggestion. Maybe you'd be interested in joining thesite where you can bring this item up and we can have a deeper discussion of it.

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