Rank Your Links! A Publish2 Community Proposition

From now on, I’ll be adding asterisks to my tags in publish2, as a way to star rank the quality of the post on a scale of 1-5. Just like iTunes. Just as easy to do. I invite you to join me in this endeavor. If we all start doing this, it will become an effective way of raising the best links to the top of the pile. I’ve created a Get Satisfaction feature request, please weigh in there.Published February 21, 2009

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I love publish2. It’s a service that is very similar to delicious in that it allows for social bookmarking, but it’s restricted membership: only journalists can join. It also has slightly more formal tagging regulations and greater integration with other sites (including, delicious). It’s a service that lets my not only bookmark sites that I like, but index them in a way that makes them eminently searchable for future writing/reference. However, it’s missing one critical component that we get out of services like digg or reddit or iTunes: a ranking system.

I’m a bit of a freak when it comes to my iTunes library. I can proudly boast that I own 80.4 days of music. That amount of data requires a certain amount of … OCD attention to detail. Part of my ‘attention to detail’ is keeping track of what music I actually like. Fortunately, iTunes has a way to do this ranking 1-5 stars — just like the movies!

What the feature might look like if Publish2 adopts it.

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When I got back and do research for a blog post, quality is one of the first things that I try to remember about a link in my publish2. I never bookmark complete trash, but when I’ve got hundreds of links related to advertising (for example), it would be great to have the most important ones popup first. So, I propose a solution. From now on, I’ll be adding asterisks to my tags in publish2, as a way to star rank the quality of the post on a scale of 1-5. Just like iTunes. Just as easy to do. I invite you to join me in this endeavor. If we all start doing this, it will become an effective way of raising the best links to the top of the pile. I’ve created a Get Satisfaction feature request, please weigh in there.

What the feature might look like if Publish2 adopts it.

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http://www.publish2.com Scott Karp

Hi Joey,

Thanks for the suggestion.

While Publish2 does not have a rating feature as you describe, we do have a ranking feature on our Newswire. For example, here are the top Media & Journalism stories for the past week: http://www.publish2.com/topics/Media-Journalism...

So there is already a way for “the best links to the top of the pile” — the more people link to them, the higher they rank.

The rating feature is on our roadmap. Please keep the ideas coming.

Cheers,

Scott Karp
CEO
Publish2
http://byjoeybaker.com Joey Baker

Thanks for the reply Scott—

I'm well aware of the ranking-by-number-of-links system, but that's not nearly as valuable to me as a way to rank my own links as valuable. Can't say how many times I've found good articles and been the only one to bookmark it. Also had many articles float to the top of the pile that are popular but not necessarily valuable.

Glad to hear it's on the roadmap.

Cheers!
http://www.publish2.com Scott Karp

Hi Joey,

Thanks for the suggestion.

While Publish2 does not have a rating feature as you describe, we do have a ranking feature on our Newswire. For example, here are the top Media & Journalism stories for the past week: http://www.publish2.com/topics/Media-Journalism...

So there is already a way for “the best links to the top of the pile” — the more people link to them, the higher they rank.

The rating feature is on our roadmap. Please keep the ideas coming.

Cheers,

Scott Karp
CEO
Publish2
http://byjoeybaker.com Joey Baker

Thanks for the reply Scott—

I'm well aware of the ranking-by-number-of-links system, but that's not nearly as valuable to me as a way to rank my own links as valuable. Can't say how many times I've found good articles and been the only one to bookmark it. Also had many articles float to the top of the pile that are popular but not necessarily valuable.

Glad to hear it's on the roadmap.

Cheers!