The Idea of Chowk

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hey hey hey finally - it a filter especially for Mr.Arjun :) - obviously hes the trouble maker and someone who will be effected most by such filters

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chowk staff #46 What a smart way to encourage people to write intelligently on chowk!! Congratulations.

hamidm2,

Your Interact Index (i2) proves couple of things:

1. Chowk-staff is not biased! Personally I think your responses rock! and if only you had written an article you would have started out with atleast a 2.

2. Formulas don`t work - unlike the perception the new system is not automatic scoring. Yes, the initial numbers are a result of factoring in some variables and assigning a number. But going forward the scoring will be qualitative and as explained earlier by a diverse group to avoid individual baises.

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Re: # 48

Echoboom Sahib,

I dont have to wait until Jumma Prayers to offer my plea that your rating be altered to its rightful score: a negative 3.

My criteria:

1. Vocabulary that shows little imagination or deviation from the Khomeini Torture Guard handbook: ``munaFIQUES, wesTOXIFICATION, HIJRAS, babablablah blacksheep, Commies, etc.``.

2. Composition Skills that are unvaried, fairly predicatable format: ``SCOURGE the munaFIQUES so that they FEEL THE WHIP of the ISLAMIC BROTHERHOOD and sisterhood!``

3. Metaphors that rely on fairly extensive knowledge of S&M bars...I mean...all that whipping and grovelling...it aint happening at TGIF`s...so I`m assuming you get your material elsewhere?

4. Armageddon for: 1. moderate muslims 2. progressives 3. women who might have a career 4. religious minorites 5. people who can read...

5. Kandy Kolored links on your ilog page all bunched up together and causing for the reader, a kind of visual disorientation akin to comics. We are talking sleight of hand visual aesthetics here...

6. Refusal to acknowledge a variety of news sources like the progressive media you use to slander the US govt while in the next post you call for the beheading of all progressives...I believe the rhetorical term for that is ``lack of ethos``

7. Maintaining correspondence from the 12 Century. Why do you post into the future if you are so unhappy with it?

Thats enough for me.

chowk-staff #52

Would you let us know which interactors have been honored with the exalted privilege of being invited to grade others` posts? Have any come forth and volunteered themselves for that onerous duty? Given past Chowk history, I can think of some who might do just that ...

I have discovered today that the true happiness is the happiness of the little man inside us, eveything else is merely a shakespearian act on stage of life.

chowk staff,

........... is there a special rating scale for mbz isphahani ....... what were you guys drinking when you dreamed him up !!! ? ........ can you ban him and put ahmed madani back on again ?

hamidm: quit complaining about your poor grades and write an article for chowk!!

This is the typical response of a decision taken by a commitee. A whole elaborate structure with so many holes that it will either finish off Chowk`s remaining readership of 31 or spread creation of multiple nicks like wildfire. I bet it will be discarded within 2 weeks.

Systems have to be simple and need not be too flexible in order to be popular. Why not just ban IP addresses that breach Chowk guidelines and be done with it?

later
-sac

hamidm: here is a poem from Robert Burns to make you feel better:

O wad some Pow`r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An` foolish notion


ha! ha!

But seriously: like chowk staff said, you are always fun to read, often come up with some great lines. They have explained the basis for their ratings, and that is fine with me. So, be a sport about it and dont scare us all by threatening to leave.....or else you will get extra points deducted if the referee does this:

#55

“Have any come forth and volunteered themselves for that onerous duty? Given past Chowk history, I can think of some who might do just that ...”

Like arjun_m, Sadna, Alephnull/Blasphmer, Jay and more of the same ilk….

In view of the chowk staff posts, I am beginning to warm up to the whole idea of levels and rating an secret scorers and the whole enchilada. I hope they stick to it.

Hamidm, It is nice to be in your league!

This is great. The concept is fine but a few problems.

You can rate the the people and the interacts. But then it is funny that you cannot read the posts of the people who level is below yours. So for instance I cannot read any one with a level 0 score.

You should show everything warts and all.
Okay the grading is done by the other interactors. How do you avoid concerting here. It is well known that such systems are prone to concerts of people. Even academic journals (esp the arts and humanities one ) face this problem. When this happens the charm of chowk disappears. leave a free for all....

The concept is prone to manipulation aka mushism.
Other than that, the filter sucks and can`t get to a specific page with specific filter setting, the stupid gets reset to one.
Need hacker`s manual to work around.

basically this is charter for the arts and liberal mafia to create a group of people to rate themslevs highly. ANd corner the market for their weird ideas.this is not new to them. They have more experience of this kind of stalinism.
Watchout when the likes of the very learned professor that most brilliant mind of chowk Professor saminasha and her cohorts start getting rated highy.