Birgitte SB wrote:
--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
The success of a communications strategy depends not only on the information being posted, but on people taking the time and responsibility to read it. One of the reasons for this reading failure is the sheer volume of messages that are issued. So, at least rating the significance of the messages would be important. A Board statement about a newly adopted policy would have a very high rating. Yet another person's complaint about being blocked would have a very low one. Putting numerical ratings on each message would help those with limited time to choose which ones to read first.
If the information has been there and easily accessible for a reasonable time there is no valid excuse for not being informed.
Ec
I am not sure rating is necessary. The key messages worth reading in a thread have links from the summary to their archived location. I would think everyone should have time to read the basic summary and if a particular thread is something they care about the should read the message(s) that are linked to. And if they REALLY care they can read through that section of the archive completely. Of course the archived messages is always in english which is a problem for those reading translations of the summary. But that would still be a problem even if they were rated.
Fair enough, but the ratings could also give an idea to potential translators about which should be translated first.
Ec