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This reminds me of the recent articles about the netflix optimization challenge. Voting systems like imdb might be improved with some simple heuristics that ta
by delackner 18y ago
This reminds me of the recent articles about the netflix optimization challenge. Voting systems like imdb might be improved with some simple heuristics that take into account the absurdity of some people's votes.
If a user makes votes that are < 2.0 for a movie that the entire community for years has rated above 9.0, then probably that user's votes should all be ignored, because they are totally uninformed.
- william42 18y agoBecause having unpopular taste is bad?
- eru 18y agoEvil.
- thwarted 18y agoWhat if you assume everything is average and you give more weight toward the finally rating for those individual ratings that are further from the norm? This means people couldn't game it by following the crowd, following the crowd gives the entire crowds rating less weight.