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Re: Language Choices and LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:28:36 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Calum Tsang wrote:
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I would like to suggest a “down-light” option. Enough downlights could
moderate a post into oblivion. Then you would truly have a representation
of the “community” opinion on something.
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Seems worthy of exploration. The downside is that an important but unpopular
message might get downchecked pretty badly.
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That’s okay--say the community isn’t enlightened about certain topics. If they
unvote “important” topics, it can’t be that “important” as a result. What that
really says is, we’re gonna institute a mechanized form of mob rule. If it’s
gonna be liberal “swear to your kids” parents or religious nutbars who build for
god, then so be it. Let’em battle it out with a network of underlying metrics
instead of overwhelming rhetoric.
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Interesting proposal. the threshold is somewhat reminiscent of the slashdot
karma functionality, if you run at +5 you see very little chaff. Did you have
that in mind at least in part?
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That’s exactly what I’m thinking of...there’s a number of other websites that
use social network / collaborative filtering, including Amazon, IMDB, etc which
use the power of groups to moderate content (in the case of IMDB, it’s movies,
Amazon, it’s recommendations and reviews etc) Heck, Am I Hot or Not.com is
another example.
Maes and Terveen were the two authors that stick in my mind--there’s a pile of
other research already on it, in a number of different applications. The
software isn’t that hard, almost trivial. It’s just a matter of tuning it to
the appropriate user context.
The major difference I see is the fact that I’d probably want to see enough
negatives to destroy a message. Some threshold needs to be set, like 20
negatives or 30 negatives. The emphasis would be less on spotlighting good
stuff, but more to get rid of what the community sees as unaccepatble.
Calum
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| (...) Seems worthy of exploration. The downside is that an important but unpopular message might get downchecked pretty badly. (...) Interesting proposal. the threshold is somewhat reminiscent of the slashdot karma functionality, if you run at +5 (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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