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>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:

>  2. -1 is very little if you want to really zap it.  nil here would mean
>     the default negative score, which (I think) would be -1000

Correcting myself: nil is the default positive score.  If you want a
negative score, use a negative number.

And noting from the other articles in the thread: if you want to zap the
articles, don't go for score values of -1 or even -100, go for <-1000 at
least.