[phpesp-dev] Rank problem when answer not required (revisited)

[Paul B. <pbo...@sc...>]

Dear developers,

Regarding the possible problems with ranking questions and where answers 
are not required, I have a small suggestion.

To distinguish between unanswered questions and rank 1 answers which 
both become 0 when stored in the database and corrupt the results, a 
"magic" number could be set as the default value in the database (say 
-99999).

  => The statistics scripts for previewing the result can easily take 
this into account, as well as statistical packages. It is also backwards 
compatible with respect to existing results.

Any comments?

Regards

Paul