8/26/05

Weblist Changes

by lawrence at Friday, August 26, 2005
There are now nearly 3,000 Weblists that have been created by RateItAll members. Many of these make for compelling reading and have been put together with a lot of time and effort. Some of them haven't.

As more and more Weblists compete for airtime, we felt it was the right time to institute some community controls to allow the RateItAll community to determine which weblists get the most exposure. In addion, we'll be taking advantage of the changes to clarify some of the existing guidelines.

Very soon now (possibly as early as this evening), we're going to be launching a series of tweaks to the Weblist channel of the site. As mentioned in earlier posts, these tweaks are going to:

- Require that every Weblist have a ratings scale in order to be published.
- Ensure that the highest quality Weblists, as determined by the community, get the most airplay.
- Clarify some of the guidelines related to Weblists.

Specific applications of the new Weblist approach will include the following:

- Weblists that have a cumulative rating of 3.00 or higher will be accessible through the main Weblist index. Weblists that have a cumulative rating of a 2.99 or lower will be accessible through the user page of the Weblist creator.
- Weblists that are entirely personal to the reviewer (e.g. "Songs I Play on the Guitar," "Rate My DVD Collection," "A Few Ideas I Have") will be accessible only through the user page of the Weblist creator.
- There will be an administrative override, that in certain cases, will be used to assign a Weblist to "user page only" status.

Initially, it will only take one 3+ rating for a Weblist to show up in the main index. This means that all of us will be able to make an immediate impact in determining which Weblists get airplay, and which don't - as many of the Weblists have not been rated.

To ensure that quality, but as of yet unrated Weblists, don't get lost in the shuffle, any Weblist that is unrated will also show up in the index, until its cumulative rating drops below 3.0.

As always, feedback is welcome....

2 comments:

  1. lawrenceAugust 26, 2005 9:06 PM

    Hi Mr. Political, to delete one of your own Weblists, here's what you do: Click on the "Flag for Administrative Review" link on Weblist page, select the reason you want it deleted, and leave us a short note. We'll get to deleting in within a couple of days.

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  2. lawrenceAugust 26, 2005 10:40 PM

    Hi PB, I'm certainly not trying to give anyone the cold shoulder. You have given the same feedback repeatedly for the last several months, and I guess you and I are going to have to agree to disagree. You feel that RateItAll should decide what are good weblists and what are bad, and I feel that the community should decide. Not much more to say than that :)

    Over the next couple of months, you will find that we will be moving even farther towards giving RIA users more administrative control over the site. I feel strongly that the future of RIA is in making it a community resource in which the community is responsible for determining user reputations, determining which content is compelling, and even self policing. Much more on this to follow, as it ties in directly for my vision for RateItAll...

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