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Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:26:14 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> > Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> > > That's what the averaging effect is for -- to smooth that out. If the
> > > system also could learn what you liked, you might find that helpful.
> > > (That's a long way down the road, though.)
> >
> > Smoothing what out, though? How does the system distinguish between "0: I
> > like posts about robots, but not in .castle" and "0: not interesting to me",
> > or "60: kinda funny if you're in the right mood" and "60: contains some
> > useful information but could be more complete"?
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> It can't (and doesn't actually need to) distinguish that so greatly -- the
> bottom line (to it) would be that you disfavor posts about robots in castle
> and things that are kinda funny or contain some useful info.
Whoops -- :) -- I meant to say, "...that you disfavor posts about robots in
castle and _favor_ (somewhat) things that are kinda funny or contain some
useful info." But actually it would just look at the statistical correlation
between your rating and other people's ratings, etc.
--Todd
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