Re: Plausibility Check


Peter T. Daniels wrote:

What is "kiilrating"? I've been sentenced to google groups for about
three weeks now, and I haven't found any evidence of such a thing.

Sentenced? I like the Google groups. The bugs of the new interface
have been removed, now it works fine. Years ago I tried to read
messages via Netscape. Made me desperate. Once I subscribed
to a mailing list, whereupon my e-mail account was flooded. With
Google I have it easy. I just open the threads I am interested in,
no flooding of my e-mail account, no need to killfile anyone.
The only problem I have with Google is the rating facility in the
scientific groups. Log in, browse sci.lang or another group, place
the cursor on the five empty stars ***** under a message, and you
can see pop up the following explanations (quoted from memory):

* poor quality, I would not recommend this message
to a friend

** below average

*** average

**** above average

***** excellent, I would recommend this message to a friend

When Google installed the rating facility in February or March
of this year, I immediately foresaw what will happen: some
people will downrate every message of mine. And it did happen.
Some people follow me everywhere and systematically give
me one star for poor quality. Look up the last messages of
my etymological thread (glossary of the new Magdalenian words)
and you know what I mean. Here in this thread someone followed
our heated discussion and gave us 3 stars each. Then one of
my killraters found that I don't deserve three stars for average,
and gave a series of my messages one star each, systematically
bringing down my rating from 3 to only 2 stars. However, he missed
one message, and so I pointed it out to him.

Killrate is an analog of killfile.

I find the rating facility unworthy for a scientific forum, where
people must provide arguments. Many scientific groups are
simply ignoring that facility, but in sci.lang people use it for
killrating me.

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