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Two months ago I got a form letter rejection from the semi-final round of the Knight News Challenge on my proposal to do exactly this. It was based on what I'd
by Harkins 15y ago
Two months ago I got a form letter rejection from the semi-final round of the Knight News Challenge on my proposal to do exactly this. It was based on what I'd learned about news forums from working at the Washington Post, machine learning, and a bit of secret sauce. It seemed like an acute problem worth solving and so far the responses on their site are about 80% ideas I included. Validation, I guess, but I'm sort of a mixed bag of emotions about seeing this.
- jawns 15y agoI'd like to hear more about your proposal. I, too, submitted a proposal dealing with these issues, and my submission was passed over.
- Joakal 15y agoHow would both proposals allow for infinite scale though? It seems like the machines can eventually learn to emulate human moderation, but a website like PBS may get 500+ comments. The user would immediately get overwhelmed at 50+ comments or more (guess). For example, on Reddit, people are learning to avoid posting if a thread has more than 200 posts because their highest-level post would be useless.
- Harkins 15y agoThey don't have to scale infinitely, only a handful of news sites serve more than 20m pages/day. As for not overwhelming users or moderators, that was part of my secret sauce. :)