Re: Those groups levels again

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> Do newsgroups really need to be scored? Resorting newsgroups isn't
> something done too often, and it's generally easier to kill-yank groups
> to put them where they belong than to score-score-score-score-resort...
> DAMN! score-score-resort.... It's one thing to have subjects
> automatically scored but implementing all the things that make scoring
> useful in the summary buffer for the newsgroup buffer just seems like
> useless overkill when you've already implemented levels.

Too late!  I've already written the code for this!  Bwahahaha!  :-)

But really, I think it can be useful.  There's so much functionality
tied to the levels that doing more with them than we currently do
isn't advisable.  What I wanted was to implement "group bubbling",
which means that every time you enter a group, it goes "up".  (Several
people have requested this.)  While going "up", the general feeling
was that there should be several categories, so that one can guarantee
that the groups stay (generally) where they belong, but they should
"rise" in that subcategory.

And that is possible by combining levels and scores.  (New Gnuspeak
word -- "rank".  The rank of a group is defined as a combination of
the level and the score.)

I have written no commands for manually changing the score of groups.
I don't really plan to... unless there's a Violent Uprising Craving
Group Score Commands of '96!

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