29 Jun 2002
(updated 29 Jun 2002 at 14:07 UTC) »
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
and the Zip file from here.