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Ask HN: Curating the internet?
Would love to get your thoughts. What if there was a chrome extension that allowed you to upvote any link you run into over the internet. This way you have a meta layer of human curation over the internet, giving contextual clues as to whether something is really useful or not!
- bdcravens 9y agoYahoo and DMOZ tried the human curation model. The extension is interesting given you have sufficient funds for infrastructure and the substantial effort you'll need to put into fighting spammers and those gaming it.
- greenyoda 9y agoThe simple upvoting system you described would only be useful if you happened to like the same things as the average internet user. For example, I'm probably not going to like something just because a hundred million teenagers liked it. (An upvoting system doesn't even work very well for me on a fairly narrowly focused site like HN - I only read a small fraction of the items on the front page.) A more effective approach might be for the system to learn what users like based on the correlations between their upvotes and other users' upvotes. For example: "people who liked X also liked Y". (Kind of like how Amazon suggests merchandise to people.) However, I already get more interesting stuff than I can ever finish reading just by following links from sites that I already find interesting. So I'm not sure what value would be added by having a curation service.
- hsikka 9y agoThat's a fantastic point. I actually was thinking about building it and seeing what happens, just as an experiment. Also, it would be a lot of work to upvote after viewing the article