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"Abstain" in Moderate Queue
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By Elkor , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Wed May 01, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Sometimes I can tell I'm not going to interested in a story before I even read it. If it deals with programming, cars, or someone's pet rabbit, I'm probably going to vote abstain. Unfortunately, I still have to load the story and all associated comments to vote on it. It would be nice if I didn't have to.
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Until I vote on the story, it shows up as an item in the queue for me to vote on. If I come back to the site's front page later(say, 2-3 hours), I don't know whether the number it tells me includes the story I didn't bother voting on, or is something different.
This is doubly bothersome with the new "Edit" status in the Moderate queue. If I moderate all the stories and come back later, is that new votable the edited story I didn't care about? Or is it something new? Only one way to find out.... and then only one way to vote on it. Gotta click through.
My idea is to have a check box put in the submission queue for "Abstain" and an "Apply" button to apply the vote.
Then I can scan the Subjects/topics/categories and vote abstain on the ones I know I'm not going to be intereted in without having to load each one. People that would vote abstain on an editable story would probably vote abstain anyway, later on. By letting them do so now has advantages.
This would:
a) Save me time (don't have to wait for the story to load).
b) Save bandwidth (don't have to send the story/comments that I'm not going to read to me)
c) Be a nice feature.
This would also help cut down on the people that vote -1 because they don't like the category (MLP seems to be a popular victim of this mentality).
By letting people who already know they aren't going to care vote "Abstain" the site load can be shifted to those people that are more interested in the article, which should be more efficient.
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