Xref: utzoo news.admin:7875 news.groups:15311 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: Fixing the unbroken Message-ID: <1989Dec4.060536.16799@eng.umd.edu> Date: 4 Dec 89 06:05:36 GMT References: <7139@ficc.uu.net> <11832@cbnews.ATT.COM> <623@banyan.UUCP> <55499@looking.on.ca> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Reply-To: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Organization: Merriversity of Uniland, College Purgatory Lines: 23 In article <55499@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: >Compared with other voting-like systems, the current voting like system >is no more or less broken, that's true. > >My examination of readership from sites that report it says that this system >has done rather poorly. It has created very few groups that have reached the >highest levels of readership. So? How do you define 'highest levels of readership'? Using a percentile system? > >So come on, folks. Instead of saying "me, too," show us some *evidence* for >your claim that this voting farce works. What's your evidence that it doesn't? It seems to me that basically groups that are worthwhile to large minorities of people on the net are being created, controversial or not-- Yes, few of these have entirely general interest (how many DEC users read comp.sys.ti?), but is entirely general interest possible with a net this large. >-- >Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473 And BTW, what is your alternative? -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu ][, ][+, ///, ///+, //e, //c, IIGS, //c+ --- Any questions? Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com