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[Pan-users] Scoring articles in watched threads.
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Bobby D. Bryant |
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[Pan-users] Scoring articles in watched threads. |
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Tue, 5 Aug 2003 02:28:58 -0600 |
I put in a bugzilla report on this earlier and it was reported as fixed
in the latest series of betas, but it was not clear from the bugzilla
discussion exactly what the fix solution was. Now that I see how it
works I would like to re-open discussion on it as a request for a
feature change rather than as a bug.
If you use 'W' to set a watch on a thread it sets a score=9999 for the
thread in the scorefile. The fix mentioned above apparently ensured
that no further scores are considered when a relevant score= entry is
encountered. I know this matches whatever newsreader you have been
trying to emulate, but that behavior really isn't desirable because it
also scores up all the bozos, psychos, and other Usenet undesirables
that you have scorefile entries for and who post to that thread.
How about changing the watch entry to +9999 rather than =9999, or at
least giving us a user preference for managing watched threads that way
? That would let us continue downgrading certain kinds of posts even
when they occur in a watched thread. It seems to me that the whole
point of the scoring system is to allow you to stack scores arising
from multiple causes in order to categorize a post properly, and the
=9999 setting for watched threads discards the elegance of the whole
system.
Thanks,
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Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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