Re: SuperOpenRatings

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Robert A. Lentz <ralentz@ralentz.com> wrote:

>> I suggested that we add IDs to RSS 0.9x so that ratings would remain
>> persistent.
> - The story can uniquely be identified by the link, if not the title.

The idea is to deal with people who have CMSes that change the link as the
document is moved. Combine this with misspelled / reused / missing titles
and the fact that the link is option in RSS 0.92 and you've got a problem.

> Seems to me that anything which does not reuse one of these elements as
> part of the ID would add a cumbersome centralization, for the ID
> repository, to the process.

Well it couldn't be centralized, of course. I was thinking more along the
lines of a permanent, generated URI for the site, or a unique ID on a
per-feed basis.

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