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I've posted this on HN before, but I wrote a long essay about problems with account-karma-moderation systems: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000
by Perceval 17y ago
I've posted this on HN before, but I wrote a long essay about problems with account-karma-moderation systems: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000
Probably too involved for your project, but there are some problems you should be aware of from the get go.
- yannis 17y agoPerceval thanks and by the way an excellent essay. You hit the nail on the head with ... 'our hypothetical comment-driven forum would push stories up based on quality of conversation....'. Do you think that part of the formula can be improved by including automatically a 'readability formula', where the childish comments and language would automatically be penalized by the system?
- Perceval 17y agoSome folks are already working on that: http://stupidfilter.org/main/ http://stupidfilter.org/main/ It's supposed to identify formally stupid comments, i.e. those that have bad spelling and txt abbreviations, etc. It doesn't do anything about substantive stupidity, unfortunately ;)
- yannis 17y agoI was thinking something like the Gunning fog index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunning_fog_index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunning_fog_index