91837 - Implement bookmarked content ratings

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement, P5)

Description

[xyzzy]

I frequently wonder why certain links appear in my bookmark files, as they are 
often there merely as a token reference before a more useful baseline of 
resources has been established.  I need a tool that would enable me to 
continually improve my bookmarks by identifying and removing the least relevant 
ones.

What I would like to see is some kind of indicator of why I bookmarked it, that 
is, did I think this was a good resource when I bookmarked it?  The level could 
be quantized into units like "poor", "fair", "good", "excellent", etc. or could 
give more fine-grained results with an  value between say, 0 and 100.  A 
combination approach is certainly feasible, and I have even devised scheme that 
_I_ most identify with, which maps between the two (will post if I find it).

In the description of part (e) for bug 13011 (Intelligent bookmarking), an agent 
is described that promotes bookmarks based on usage.  Such an agent could be 
used to establish default ratings for browsers such as Mozilla.

Bug 20210 (Top 10 List) also describes a mechanism for identifying useful 
bookmarks, and I think that this enhancement could solve the stability issues 
discussed there, as the user can set the content rating, and it could override a 
default automated value (say, frequency count).

I can see this being implemented using an extension of XBEL (see bug 55057), but 
there is certainly no dependency.  I would like to see a <rating> tag become 
part of the "standard" XBEL DTD, as I (and others, perhaps) would use this 
extensively.  Such a tag would be user-centered, so that competing browsers 
would not clobber user-set values here, but could still augment them via 
extensions.  So, Mozilla and IE could both come up with default ratings which 
would could coexist peacefully.

I definitely want to hear some other opinions on this...

Comment 1

[xyzzy]

Here is a mapping I would recommend, as this fits with my intuition and I use 
more fine-grained control on the lower end, not the upper end:

f(x) = 5 - sqrt((100 - x)/4)

Value x  ->  Rating f(x)
----------------------------------------
100      ->  5   stars (excellent)
99       ->  4.5 stars
96       ->  4   stars (great)
91       ->  3.5 stars
84       ->  3   stars (good)
75       ->  2.5 stars
64       ->  2   stars (bad)
51       ->  1.5 stars
36       ->  1   star  (awful)
19       ->  0.5 stars
0        ->  0   stars (worthless)

So, anything falling in [75, 84) would get a rating of 2.5 stars...

Comment 2

[xyzzy]

Doh, bug 13011 mentioned above should be bug 13012 (Intelligent bookmarking).

Comment 3

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

No dupes found. Confirming RFE, marking NEW.

Comment 4

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Interesting idea. 

Comment 5

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Paul Chen is now taking Bookmarks bugs. For your convenience, you can filter 
email notifications caused by this by searching for 'ilikegoats'.

Comment 6

[Paul Chen]

Mass move Ben's bugs dumped on me marked future with p5 to get off my untriaged
radar. You can filter out this email by looking for "ironstomachaussie"

Comment 7

[Peter Trudelle]

mass reassign of pchen bookmark bugs to ben

Comment 8

[mental]

See also bug 33296.

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 10

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 11

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 12

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 13

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 14

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 15

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 16

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420