29 Jun 2002 fxn   » (Master)

The sync release of MyAdvogato is out.

I don't understand on what basis people expect the diary rating system to be more accurate than the current certification system. If you think people is being too generous having guidelines to certify (I think what is actually generous is the algorithm that assigns a level to you, algorithm that changed somehow a year or so ago since until then it was way harder to be a Journeyer), what is going to happen if the only thing that accounts is one's view of what is better than what in the diary of someone else? Linear Algebra corrects this? I think it has no sense. Linear Algebra can do things with raw data, but people argue as if it was going to work on the actual meaning of the rates, for each person in Person, for each meaning in person->meanings.

Anyway, I dislike diary rates from a pure human being point of view, so MyAdvogato provides a flag in case you don't even want to see those numbers, as I do.

In case you do want to see the rates, which I respect and is the default in the script, as a provisional solution until the CGI handles cookies by its own one needs to pass a valid cookie via the new parameter cookie to view them, since they are only shown to authenticated users that have certified someone else AFAICT.

The tarball is available from here, and the Zip file from here.

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