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One additional thought I had here; based on this graph idea, it seems to me a useful thing to do would be to create some sort of way to get a handle on communit
by vessenes 16y ago
One additional thought I had here; based on this graph idea, it seems to me a useful thing to do would be to create some sort of way to get a handle on community on quality using metrics.
They would probably be terribly inaccurate metrics at first, but they would also provide a means for people to decide how to assess.
As a start, you could use people, for instance paying people on Mechanical Turk to evaluate a post and its comments for specified HN guidelines; these could be used as a first attempt to get a feel for how well a given day / week goes.
- phreeza 16y agoI was thinking the same thing, but maybe also using sentiment analysis or other NLP techniques. Even simple word count trends might yield some insight. If we could get a dump of all the comments tagged with submission time that would be a nice starting point for people to throw their algorithms at.
- vessenes 16y agoI really like this idea; isn't that what the "comments" link does at the top?