[CT] QOA

[Dan Moran]

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There are 7,048 quotes up on QOA now. These are "mine" -- i.e., they struck 
me as worth reading, though not necessarily accurate, truthful, or 
whatever. This is all that will be up there for a while -- I've got about 
another 20,000 quotes in the database, but for whatever reason they strike 
me as less interesting. Eventually they'll go up as well, but not soon. 
First I'm going to get a quotes rating system in place, with the ability 
for end users to rate and respond to quotes; and the ability to post new 
quotes. You'll have to be a registered user of the site to do any of those 
things. (There will be a search engine as well, which won't require 
registration -- at least at this point I don't anticipate registration 
being necessary, ever, to look at things on the site; only to post.)

Once I've rated the quotes already in the database -- this may take a year 
-- I'll put up the less-interesting-to-me quotes and make them available 
for people to look at. The random quote generator, however, will continue 
to pull quotes that are highly rated by me, Daniel Keys Moran. Also, you'll 
be able to view and sort quotes based on either my ratings or someone 
else's -- as far as the database is concerned, I'm simply another use of 
the system -- "iEntityID = 1", admittedly.

Eventually you'll be able to rate and recommend, and comment on the various 
stories and essays as well -- the ratings table doesn't care what the 
source object is that's being rated; it can be a quote, a person, or a work 
(novel, essay, whatever -- and it doesn't have to be mine.)

For quotes the rating system is: How True; How Entertaining; How Important. 
For example, Pope Leo XIII: "The death sentence is a necessary and 
efficacious means for the Church to attain its ends when rebels against it 
disturb the ecclesiastical unity, especially obstinate heretics who cannot 
be restrained by any other penalty from continuing to disturb 
ecclesiastical order." This gets, from me, a 0,0,90 -- Not True, Not 
Entertaining, but pretty important given who the guy is. Pope Pius XII 
writes: "One Galileo in two thousand years is enough." This gets a 0,90,75 
-- Not True, Very Entertaining (though maybe not intentional), fairly 
important given who the guy is.

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