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From: "John D'Errico" <woodchips@rochester.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: Doubt on usefulness of the FEX
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 12:34:01 +0000 (UTC)
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"Jos " <#10584@fileexchange.com> wrote in message <gf16vq$nsn$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "a programmer" <no@spam.com> wrote in message <gevjr0$mfl$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > "Jos " <#10584@fileexchange.com> wrote in message <gev97h$pim$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > > Dear all,
> > > 
> > > A multitude of the more recent submissions, reviews and comments posted on the FEX  have nothing to do with matlab or sharing scientific ideas. Yes, I am talking about Marco's trolling behavior evoking equally useless reactions of others. 
> > > 
> > > Like others before me, I am seriously considering moving my files elsewhere. I once proposed to have a FEX implementation in which one could filter out submissions in which you (as a FEX member) are not interested, perhaps using tags. However, such a thing is still impossible.
> > > 
> > > Just some thoughts after a long day at work...
> > > 
> > > Best,
> > > Jos
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm sorry Jos. My comments on that file did not add any value. Didn't mean to offend you. I will stop reviewing Marco.
> > 
> 
> I have to admit that I also posted nonsense reviews on Marco files, and it took me some time to learn that it is not doing any good. So, it is not primarily your (or even Marco's ) behavior that led to my post. 
>  
> I simply do not like to browse through a lot of non-information before finding something interesting. It should be quite easy to implement some personal filter on the FEX. This could even be applied to excellent submissions. For instance, when searching for functions that do something with random numbers, I do not want to see all the functions I already have downloaded, written myself, or have seen before and find not useful. 
> 
> Jos

Yes. I've been disappointed in the FEX mods.
I think a very useful thing would have been
to filter out stuff. If you never want to see
anything by Marco, then this should be trivial
to do. Somehow I understood something like
this was to have been part of the new FEX.
For example:

I'd like to be able to assign some weight to
any individual, say in the range [0,1000].
Anything they say or do on the FEX is applied
this weight. Define all default weights for
every person as 100. So for Marco, I'd reduce
his weight to 0, so that nothing he does will
ever even show up.

If I'm looking at a file, and Marco has made
some ridiculous comment on it, that comment
is itself filtered by the same weighting system.

On the other hand, a person I respect would
be given a higher weight, so that their works,
even their comments, would naturally float to
the top. For some reason, I had been led to
believe that this (or something like it) was to
have been part of the new FEX mods.

John