Wikiality talk:Sound Advice/Grading

I made a few adjustments to the scale/template. Obviously, you can see these changes in the history, but I wanted to explain why I made them, just in case anyone cares. Or in case anyone wishes to debate me. I will win, though, because I studied at the Stephen Colbert School of Ass-Kicking Debater Techniques for Kicking Ass in All Debates. Anyway... 1. I changed "randomness" to "truthiness." I feel this is a good change because it keeps us grading everything on a positive scale, rather than grading for 3 things we do want (beauty, Stephen Colbert Experience, SPG), and one thing we don't (randomness).

2. I changed "Level of Stephen" in the template description to "Level of It-Getting," because I don't want people to force a "Stephen" connection when what they are writing fits into "The Stephen Colbert Experience" but doesn't directly concern Stephen. I believe that stretching for these kind of connections can actually lead to more randomness, so I just wanted to focus on the "It-Getting," rather than the Stephen. It-Getting is inclusive of Stephen; one cannot get "it" without "getting" him. But we certainly have plenty of articles here that reference Stephen (a lot) and show no indication of It-Getting.

3. I changed the background color of the page. This doesn't do anything for content, at all. I was hoping it would make the color scheme easier to read. If it doesn't, or if it's annoying on your displays, please change it back.

That's all. I really like this idea. It's even better than my idea of giving pages a number of "Balls" or "Bears" to indicate their worthiness. --thisniss 23:02, 13 March 2007 (UTC)