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As I understand it, your idea is that the user will discover some new interesting quotes and then the community can vote them up. I like the idea, but in a gen
by greyman 17y ago
As I understand it, your idea is that the user will discover some new interesting quotes and then the community can vote them up.
I like the idea, but in a general sense, quote is something shorter (usually just one sentence), and aiming at some basic "truths", like there are quotes about love, relationships, inspiration, etc. But if you mix that with quotes that require some specific knowledge, I am not sure if that will work.
For example, I tried to read some quote form your side, only discovering that it is related to U.S. politics. But I don't watch this topic closely, so after reading the paragraph, I just didn't understand what is it about. So the quotes which requires some specific knowledge (like politics of certain country, etc.), will need to have their own subdomain...if you mix it into one place, you will just get a snippets of text understood by only certain people.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoThis is great feedback, but I'm not sure how to handle. The idea, for registered users, is that you downvote the first U.S. Politics quote you see. Then the system starts sorting those lower. Over time, if you keep training the system, you'll never see a U.S. politics quote. But for new users, how to handle? Right now for anonymous users I have a basic HN sorting algorithm.What you are saying is that this might not be enough. Should I leave it as is? Should I add some kind of heading or sorting on the page so that people can easily see the topics (topics appear as you mouse over the quote). Not sure.
- alilja 17y agoSo what you're REALLY providing isn't a quote-aggregation service, but rather an intelligent method of showing people content from around the internet based on how much they like a topic. It's like Pandora but for news. EDIT: community-powered Pandora but for news?
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoYes. Exactly. The quote gives them a sample of the target material so they can decide whether to take time to consume the whole thing.
- alilja 17y agoThen you shouldn't be focusing on the quote itself. The quote is just an efficient preview of the material. Focus on accurately giving people news they want, and make THAT the selling point. I'd pay for something like this.
- pclark 17y agocommunity-powered Pandora but for news = reddit...?
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoReddit -> little boxes with items in them. Choose your box QF -> one big box. Each item is highly-tagged. System chooses combination of tags based on your previous behavior --Also-- Reddit -> Consume based on community score and titles (which can both be wildly gamed) QF -> Consume based on previewing a piece of the material