On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:26:43 +0000, B Gruff wrote:
> On Monday 12 February 2007 00:08 Tim Smith wrote:
>
>> The advantage of getting Roy's posts via netscape.com is you can see how
>> people are voting on them, and more easily avoid the particularly
>> inaccurate ones, as those won't garner many votes.
>
> Ah - I see.
> Tell me though, why would I want to just read things that some folks have
> "voted" that I should see? Isn't that a bit like reading the old Pravda?
>
> - and who votes for the voters?
That's the problem. The only people who have time to waste voting on posts
on newsgroups probably are the least qualified to do so -- and that's if
*voting* on posts was really necessary in the first place.
Google's search engine is great and I'm glad they took over DejaVu's
newsgroup servers when that outfit went belly up -- but things like voting
on posts makes me wonder if Google has too much money and time on
their hands.
--
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
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