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Interesting feedback on recommenders, thanks for sharing. > Moreover, in all these situations, I feel like it just be improved by asking the user instead. Ther

Interesting feedback on recommenders, thanks for sharing. > Moreover, in all these situations, I feel like it just be improved by asking the user instead. There are thing I'd love recommendations on and I'd be quite willing to tell these portals about my preferences. Explicit feedback would be amazing, but my experience is that you do not get many chances to request it from your users. Sign-up is the best chance, but anything after that is a non-starter from a UX perspective. > But it doesn't seem like they want to know, don't have internal search worth much, don't take my search terms account when recommending, etc. This is an excellent idea. The YouTube paper linked below (which I recommend very highly if you’re interested) mentions search terms as input features.

joe_the_user 9y ago
>> Moreover, in all these situations, I feel like it just be improved by asking the user instead. There are thing I'd love recommendations on and I'd be quite willing to tell these portals about my preferences. > Explicit feedback would be amazing, but my experience is that you do not get many chances to request it from your users. Sign-up is the best chance, but anything after that is a non-starter from a UX perspective. Wait, I don't mean I'd fill some dumb survey or something. Yeah no one does that. What I mean is if I could have a set of key-words and other filters that determined what appeared on my home page, I'd definitely spend time tuning those to get what I wanted and I suspect a lot of people would do that. Of course I'm not holding my breath since the trend of the last ten years has been less and less customization for things like that.