You posted your missing message after you clicked "broaden
network focus" and now you are back at the narrower network focus.
Solution: click "broaden network focus" once and maybe twice until your
message comes into view.
When you broaden network focus, messages from other networks become
visible, but if you post a message after you broaden the focus, then your
message will not be visible in the narrower network that you started from.
To understand how the networks work try coming into the Global Perspectives
InterMix hub from two networks and then from each network, use the "broaden
network focus" link. 1) goto Global
Ideas Bank and click on the "SUGGESTIONS BOX" link there. Also
2) go to the PeaceZine site and
click on the "Global Perspectives" link there.
The two basic ratings are "interest" from 0 to 5 and "approval"
from -3 to +3. Raters are not required to give both ratings for an item.
If they want, they can give just an interest rating and skip the approval
rating or vice versa.
The approval ratings are "regressed to the mean" by adding two average
approval ratings when there is one real approval rating for an item, and
one average approval rating when there are two real approval ratings for
an item. Once there are three approval ratings, there is no regression.
The purpose of regression is to counter the likelihood that one or two
ratings will not be representative. The overall average of approval
ratings is currently about +1.5, so if you rate your own new message a
+3 for approval, you will see the average approval go to about +2.0.
The interest ratings are not regressed.
The "controversy" of an item is the standard deviation of its approval
ratings.
The "value" of an item is the average approval times the sum of the
interest ratings. This formula allows a moderately interesting item
with staying power to outvalue an item that is only of temporary interest.
The purpose of having two ratings is to beat the "lowest common denominator"
effect that plagues any single rating system -- messages with low interest
and high approval tend to get high ratings in a single rating system.
It is quite possible also to have high interest and negative average approval.
These messages have negative "value". They are worth a look -- choose
"search/filter" and sort low to high by value.
Dual ratings are theoretically underpinned by the philosophy of Alfred
North Whitehead, who analyzed events into an early stage which assigned
"importance" to its various ingredients, and a later stage which added
"judgment" to the mix.
