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I feel like this is something that maybe should be handled outside of search engines / aggregators themselves. I'm imagining some sort of community around a br
by netcraft 10y ago
I feel like this is something that maybe should be handled outside of search engines / aggregators themselves. I'm imagining some sort of community around a browser extension - the ability to vote for tags / add comments to any url, using the extension would allow you to see what others think. Would need moderation and would have to really get a critical mass before it would be useful. Perhaps the ability to have multiple "communities" you subscribe to with their own groups and ratings e.g. the "Fact Checkers" community rates this article one way, the "Reddit Politics" community rates it a bit differently, etc.
- MaxfordAndSons 10y agoSome sort of community around a browser extension you say? Check out https://hypothes.is/ https://hypothes.is/ it's a project to allow universal annotation of web content, which could conceivably enable just such a process of decentralized, community-moderated fact checking. Wouldn't that be nice! Of course, given what's happening on Wikipedia lately, I'm not totally convinced it could work, but hey, at least someone's trying.
- netcraft 10y agovery cool, thank you for pointing this out. I want to play with it some more, but I think one of the things that isnt fully thought out is that some url's will inherently change over time - the front page of the NYT for instance shows comments from over a year ago that obviously don't apply now - even comments from an hour ago may reference content that is no longer there. I don't have an answer for the problem but its something thats got to be thought about. Similar problem would be canonicalization of urls.