Comments on: CiteULike Oddity http://www.ohsoboring.com/2009/04/10/citeulike-oddity/ The trials and tribulations of a man and his life. Tribulations, that's an odd word. Let's blog about it... Sun, 16 May 2010 18:31:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Fortran http://www.ohsoboring.com/2009/04/10/citeulike-oddity/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Fortran Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:58:10 +0000 http://www.ohsoboring.com/?p=197#comment-275 Welp, maybe not. I went the other route. Every unread paper is now 5 Stars. I tried adding an "unread" tag, but the "Unread" function of the site only works on the stars. So, I did the obvious thing, rank all unread articles as 5 stars and then the "Unread" function will work. Welp, maybe not. I went the other route. Every unread paper is now 5 Stars. I tried adding an “unread” tag, but the “Unread” function of the site only works on the stars.

So, I did the obvious thing, rank all unread articles as 5 stars and then the “Unread” function will work.

]]> By: Fortran http://www.ohsoboring.com/2009/04/10/citeulike-oddity/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Fortran Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:50:26 +0000 http://www.ohsoboring.com/?p=197#comment-274 Hmm. Never thought about it like that. Smart. I might go "de-grade" my unread papers now. Hmm. Never thought about it like that. Smart.

I might go “de-grade” my unread papers now.

]]> By: Me http://www.ohsoboring.com/2009/04/10/citeulike-oddity/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Me Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:43:12 +0000 http://www.ohsoboring.com/?p=197#comment-273 I don't rate papers. CiteULike scores very high on Google rank, and to someone who doesn't use CiteULike, the implication of stars is that I am rating the quality of the paper rather than how likely I am to read it. Worse, the default rating is low. I don't want a friend or someone to see that I've rated their paper one star. I don’t rate papers. CiteULike scores very high on Google rank, and to someone who doesn’t use CiteULike, the implication of stars is that I am rating the quality of the paper rather than how likely I am to read it. Worse, the default rating is low. I don’t want a friend or someone to see that I’ve rated their paper one star.

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