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- From: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu (comp.sys.amiga.reviews moderator)
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- Subject: ADMIN: Introducing... Micro-Reviews! (Very easy to write!)
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- Date: 25 Jan 1994 21:41:42 GMT
- Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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-
- I would like to introduce a new kind of review that will appear in
- comp.sys.amiga.reviews. (Thanks to Benbuck Nason, bigben@netcom.com, for
- this suggestion.) Introducing... the micro-review! It's only one line
- long... so easy that anybody can write one in seconds!!!
-
- Just rate the programs you like or dislike, using a simple scale
- (described below). I will collect the ratings, compute the averages, and
- post the cumulative results once every month.
-
- That's it!!
-
- Here is an example of a micro-review submission. Complete
- instructions are below.
-
- ========================================================================
- To: amiga-reviews-submissions@math.uh.edu
- Subject: micro-review
-
- SpamWriter | Fooblat Software | ***
- Bunny Blaster Wars | Peter Gunn | *
- BLAZEMONGER | BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED | *****+
- ========================================================================
-
- COMPLETE (SIMPLE) INSTRUCTIONS
-
- (1) Address your e-mail to amiga-reviews-submissions@math.uh.edu.
-
- (2) Make the subject of your letter:
-
- Subject: micro-review
-
- (3) Rate the products, one per line, listing the product name,
- author/company name, and the rating, in order, SEPARATED BY "|"
- SYMBOLS. It doesn't matter how many spaces or tabs you use between
- these three fields, as long as you use "|" symbols to separate them.
- (See the example above.)
-
- Please use the following 5-star rating scale:
-
- * Bad. Avoid this product!
- ** Fair. It is useful but needs big improvements.
- *** Average. It works OK. Nothing fancy.
- **** Good. It works well. You like using it.
- ***** Excellent. It works wonderfully.
-
- In addition, you may optionally add a plus sign ("+") to your rating
- to increase it. For example:
-
- *+ Bad, but not ALL bad.
- **+ Slightly below average.
- ***+ Above average.
- ****+ Very good.
- *****+ One of THE BEST programs you have EVER used.
-
- Remember: FIRST choose the number of stars, and THEN add a plus
- if the product deserves it.
-
- NOTE: THERE ARE NO MINUS SIGNS. ONLY PLUS SIGNS.
-
- I stole this scale from Peter Thelen (ptlk@netcom.com) because I
- think it is very simple to use. He uses it for rating music.
- Thanks Peter! :-)
-
- THE MONTHLY REPORT
-
- Each month, I will post a report which lists for each product:
-
- o The average (mean and median) ratings.
- o The number of submissions.
-
- This is an experiment which will succeed or fail based on your
- participation. Let's give it a try!! Please take a few minutes and rate
- some hardware and software products to help your fellow Amiga users.
-
- ---
-
- Dan Barrett, Moderator, comp.sys.amiga.reviews
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