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How would you fix the ratings issue? That's a common issue with ratings systems in general (that they reflect popularity instead of quality).
by occamsrazorwit 7y ago
How would you fix the ratings issue? That's a common issue with ratings systems in general (that they reflect popularity instead of quality).
- stubish 7y agoYou start by allowing people to rate the ratings. For instance, flag individual titles or tags 'not interested' such as on Steam. Even just a way to hide individual titles would make a system like Netflix much better to use, and bring product customers are more likely to pay for to the foreground. And then you can feed the data to the recommendation engines, which might start to learn about what demographics are using the system rather than relying on assumptions. My personal belief (as someone with zero actual experience here), is that dislikes and disinterest would be much better for generating recommendations over likes and interest. 'likes' just gives you what is popular in your familiar genres. 'dislikes' expresses your tastes.
- occamsrazorwit 7y agoIf you allow people to rate the ratings, you come back to the original issue that people are unreliable raters. Dislikes over likes does sound interesting though.
- xioxox 7y agoYes - it's a difficult problem. It must be possible to build a better statistical model of each rater, in order to weight their opinions. A first step would be to normalise the rating distribution of each person (e.g. by average and standard deviation). I wouldn't use a rating for a particular book, unless the rater had some minimum number of ratings, or a book had very few ratings.