Steve Jones - Editor (9/28/2008)
I'm not sure how well this would work. It's one thing when someone intentionally writes for a level, which is what MSDN does, but another when someone is just writing on a topic. We tend to get lots of content at a variety of levels and I worry this would be another source of complaints that it's not a 300 level or a 400 level article because it has xx in there.We could conceivably allow the community to rate it separately from voting, maybe a "rate the level" along with rate the quality?
You have a good point about it being hard to write for levels. I, personally, would like a better way to pre-filter articles that are old news to me. At the same time, I hope article writers do not get discouraged when they write a decent beginner level article and all of the old hands rate it low.
As for your idea about community rating, it may work, but at the same time, post-publishing may be too late. At any rate, I appreciate you looking into it, but it seems that this would be more of a process change, so it may not be very feasible.
Thanks,
Eric