Nice tool

David All — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:01:08 -0500

Another great metrics tool to add to my toolbox. Nice work Micah and David.
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David All
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$.02 on your web 2.0 effort

vikram — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:04:30 -0500

Good choice to fess up & ask for help, Micah -- very web 2.0 -- where integrity and humility are the keys to leadership.

The moderation management question has been readily answered by many web 2.0 efforts: allow the community to do it. Even in the short run, your community members will have far more time and energy to rein in partial and bad posts than you ever will.

So simply implement a content-voting mechanism (which there are many flavors of in Drupal), and use it to allow posts to be rating for two factors: 1) overall quality 2) impartiality. You could do it with 2 sets of 1-5 radio buttons all on the same line under each post/comment, with an ajax style form submission for minimal intrusiveness on user experience.

This would allow you to construct a calculated field by user which averages the community ratings of their posts for quality and impartiality. And allow for browsing content or authors by quality, impartiality or both. There are also contributed Drupal modules that do these as well.

Of course, in the early going, you'll want to have as many as people as possible as you know and trust to be good judges to commit ratings on as many posts as possible. But once people see the rating system pretty much works, adds a lot of value and is easy to use, it will take on a life of its own.

Keep up the good work!

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Nice tool

$.02 on your web 2.0 effort