DSSS, Dsource, and cpan

[Gregor Richards]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Max Samukha wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:28:57 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Anders F Bjorklund wrote:
>>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Rather than get into an argument about what makes a project certified 
>>> or not, a 'digg' style voting system might be better:
>>>
>>> 1) each registered user can vote +1, 0, or -1 on each project. The 
>>> project then gets a score, which is a simple sum of these.
>>
>> A simple sum is not fair enough? The ratings of a good general purpose
>> project will be much higher than those of a very specialized project
>> of the same or better quality.
> 
> True. So use percentages instead.
> 
> Myfooproj:    66%up 12%dn 22%z, 550 votes
> 

Percentages are bad because votes get progressively less important. If 
the project was bad but then got its act together, it will still never 
have a positive rating.

  - Gregor Richards