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I think parent commenter talks about crowdsourcing labeling, not software.

• Arnt 9y ago
  Yes, and when the median number of labelings for a given article is near zero (as it will be for handmade artisanal articles), it's very easy to spam in a few five-stars. The crowd you want isn't the crowd you get. So you have to filter or supplement the user ratings/labelings/reviews using either software or inhouse people, which runs into the second problem I mentioned.
  • cat199 9y ago
    Ebay seems to do okay with their buyer/seller ratings..
    • Arnt 9y ago
      Yes. And so could etsy for rating buyers and sellers. You can't spam easily if you have to spend money to do it. But the grandparent suggested crowdsourcing saleable articles, for the kind of articles that are meant to be (simplifying) handmade.