X-Message-Number: 23987 Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:59:20 -0400 From: randolfe wicker <> Subject: Not being able to rate your own post Content-type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Not being able to rate your own posting is like being a candidate in an election in which you are banned from voting. But, getting beyond scoring funny points, I find the rating system totally changes the CryoNet experience. You rate a posting and then look at the total categories others have chosen. It is a cross between rosach tests, mind reading, political polling and tarot cards all rolled into one. If you find nearly everyone else shared your feelings, you feel reassured. you feel like you "belong". But if you find you are the only one who rated a message like 23973, which simply answer a question about what PNAC meant, as "normal" while everyone else thought it was off-topic, boring, flamebait, etc., you feel like "odd man out". I hope this rating system doesn't transform cryonet into some sort of "American Idol" ego competition in which posters become more concerned with "winning the ratings war" than they are in raising perhaps unpopular ideas (like my own "I'd settle for cloning" statements) and then defending them. I like to think of cryonet as a university of the mind rather than an internet version of "Survivor". Cloningly yours, For posters right to vote, Randolfe Wicker Founder, Clone Rights United Front, www.clonerights.com Spokesperson, Reproductive Cloning Network, www.reproductivecloning.net Advisor, The Immortality Institute, www.imminst.org Special Correspondent, www.stemcellsclub.com email: phone: 201-656-3280 Content-type: text/html; charset=Windows-1252 [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23987