Re: Book Reputations

This sounds like a great idea to me, it should make it easier to get a feel for the popularity of a book while clearly separating the voters opinion of the review and their opinion of the actual book. I agree with you that each book having its own node and being able to reply to that would be a good format. However, I think there are also a couple details with this that should be are worth discussing:

Should voting on the books themselves use up any of your votes?
Would we want to see the rep of the book before voting? Or would this lead to people downvoting it not because they didn't like it, but because they don't think it's worthy of it's current rep.

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Re: Re: Book Reputations by gmax (Abbot) on Dec 31, 2001 at 12:01 UTC
IMHO, reserving dedicated votes for books would reduce the sense of responsibility of the voting monk. The voting system in the Monastery is all about knowledge. I vote positively a node if I feel that it is giving me (or the community) something in terms of knowledge. Conversely, I vote negatively when I see that a node is giving me useless - or wrong - information. Even when I vote ++ for a "cool" node, not something that explains me how to use map or grep, I give my vote because that node is contributing to the spirit of the community. I would not mind using up some of my votes for books (I don't suppose I will be voting on books every day, after all!), if I feel that they are influencing (positively or negatively) my technical education. `_ _ _ _ (_\|\| \| \|(_\|>< _\|` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Book Reputations
by gmax (Abbot) on Dec 31, 2001 at 12:01 UTC

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