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Now all we need is a 3-D style phase-space animated gif series, which reads off the mix of responses...maybe one response, no pic.  A couple of responses, you see a simple design (have a few in there to stop it all becoming--irritating--) and as the ratings mounted up the design would become more complex...

The trick is...you can't easily find out the ratings--unless you posted the comment.  All the others can see are simple or more complex shapes, developing over time.  But if one has access to one's own ratings, and can see one's own shapes, one will learn what the shapes mean...but they will never have a binary meaning..once they start up, they're endlessly flexible (two "4" ratings, for example, would give a relatively simple diagram in, say, five variations...so once you've seen all five you get the idea...but a comment with fifteen ratings on two (or three!  No!) different scales...and raters could choose how many scales to rate on...oh my word...

I'm scaring myself.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 08:16:19 AM EST
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I wrote "responses" but I meant ratings, not replies.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 08:17:32 AM EST
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4i
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 08:19:35 AM EST
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Or 4+4i?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 08:20:10 AM EST
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Enough!
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 09:24:13 AM EST
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But Uncle afew, we was just getting started!
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 09:30:10 AM EST
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Well, all right, but you'd better clear up afterwards, or else.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 10:16:57 AM EST
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Ooh, lissajous figures!

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 08:21:47 AM EST
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For you, sir.



Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 08:55:19 AM EST
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But yes...lines...

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 08:55:53 AM EST
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rg, I think you are a visionary!

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 09:45:07 AM EST
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For you Bob...

Ach!  Don't ask me why Bob...I've spent an hour or two searching for a...song for you, or a video...

So: a short sitar lesson.

Carl Jung on individuality.

And, er, er....(hours of ers....) er...

Yeah!  The Killers!  "When You Were Young."

Always enjoyable to read your words, Bob!

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 11:50:51 AM EST
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