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Here's a suggestion: figure out the 'topic' words in the subject (shouldn't be too hard to do a moderately good job by looking at word frequencies in the titles
by indigoviolet 16y ago
Here's a suggestion: figure out the 'topic' words in the subject (shouldn't be too hard to do a moderately good job by looking at word frequencies in the titles submitted so far and whitelisting/blacklisting some); start attaching a penalty to each topic word based on how many stories were submitted recently, how many votes/comments they got, and a time decay. The goal is to make it so that a story about a very frequently seen topic will need more upvotes to climb higher in the rankings.
- philwelch 16y agoI don't know whether this is good or bad, but that would also protect against Erlang floods.
- Zak 16y agoThere might even be some room for auto-moderation with regard to the both the quality of the content (for links) and the subject matter (being the tenth post in an hour linking to an article on the same subject would result in a lower position on the front page). I'm working on a maybe-startup involving text classification that might be able to do just that.