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If coming up with an objective measure of quality was feasible, the voting system could be scrapped entirely, and instead of making a site that allows users to
by notJim 16y ago
If coming up with an objective measure of quality was feasible, the voting system could be scrapped entirely, and instead of making a site that allows users to submit links, pg could have written a web crawler.
- eru 16y agoSorry, I don't get your comment.
- notJim 16y agoI'm just pointing out that it should come as no surprise that the author of this blog post didn't come up with a good metric for judging quality. As in, if the author had come up with such a metric, he would have started a company and become fantastically wealthy applying this magical quality-quantifying algorithm, rather than writing a blog post.
- eru 16y agoPerhaps. But they are degrees of usefulness, and it's probably possible to do better. Especially if you do an analysis in hindsight, where it's no longer possible for the participants to game the system.
- vtail 16y agoBut web crawler doesn't have an important input: how HN users would vote on a particular submission.