As promised, here’s a couple new features for Google: Evil or Not?. First, by popular request, gone are the percent values on the vote labels, substituted by textual labels like: “Real good”, “Almost good”, “Not too bad”, “Almost evil”, and “Real evil”. Not a big deal, since besides the labels the rating system works just like before. The trend graph is also still showing non-negative percent values, but that’s just because the graphing library I’m using does not correctly plot negative values.
More interesting is the option of voting for the removal of items that are not pertinent, giving users a certain amount of editorial review. After a certain number of removal requests has been received, the item disappears from the page. I hope that users will be able to keep the site clean by themselves and not find clever ways to abuse it, but I’ll try to keep an eye on it.
Last but not the least: The page for yesterday will be shown if there aren’t yet any items for the current day, instead of showing an empty list. This fix has actually been online since a few days ago.
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