--- Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)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