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I wish it was a startup related to scotch. Anyway... Wisdom isn't a metric I trust if it's just users voting each other up. Seems like something a few spammers

I wish it was a startup related to scotch. Anyway... Wisdom isn't a metric I trust if it's just users voting each other up. Seems like something a few spammers could easily game, right? Also, what does skipping to something do?

jhdavids8 15y ago
Definitely a concern, as reviews likely have less exposure than something like Reddit and HN posts. We have a few strategies in mind where users will either earn votes or have limited votes available. For example, users could only vote when above a certain wisdom score and/or could only vote, say, 10 times a day. These are strategies we'll have to emperiment with. Skipping is a fun feature I added to try to evolve into a social feature. Many users use review sites to plan trips, so we added this. Basically, you 'skip' to any number of places you like, which forms a sort of itinerary with directions and ETAs. In the future, we'd love to expand this feature a bit, allowing users to share their 'skips' with friends,or possibly even advertise public and/or private skips (think of a bar crawl for example).
- michaeldhopkins 15y ago
  Skipping sounds great! I'd love to socially plan a whole evening out with my friends using a site like that, factoring in drive times and everything. In my opinion that's more interesting than review quality, although reviews are of course also important.
  - jhdavids8 15y ago
    Awesome! So a strategy mentioned to us before is highlight the skip feature, pull in reviews from sites like Yelp, Google, etc, and focus on that. This way, we'd have ratings for each business, displayable via the map in the site, and the skip feature allowing you to focus on trip planning through third party reviews. Something we'll definitely have to consider, although breaking reviews out per service would be so much more helpful in trip planning, IMO

jhdavids8 15y ago

Definitely a concern, as reviews likely have less exposure than something like Reddit and HN posts. We have a few strategies in mind where users will either earn votes or have limited votes available. For example, users could only vote when above a certain wisdom score and/or could only vote, say, 10 times a day. These are strategies we'll have to emperiment with. Skipping is a fun feature I added to try to evolve into a social feature. Many users use review sites to plan trips, so we added this. Basically, you 'skip' to any number of places you like, which forms a sort of itinerary with directions and ETAs. In the future, we'd love to expand this feature a bit, allowing users to share their 'skips' with friends,or possibly even advertise public and/or private skips (think of a bar crawl for example).

michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Skipping sounds great! I'd love to socially plan a whole evening out with my friends using a site like that, factoring in drive times and everything. In my opinion that's more interesting than review quality, although reviews are of course also important.
- jhdavids8 15y ago
  Awesome! So a strategy mentioned to us before is highlight the skip feature, pull in reviews from sites like Yelp, Google, etc, and focus on that. This way, we'd have ratings for each business, displayable via the map in the site, and the skip feature allowing you to focus on trip planning through third party reviews. Something we'll definitely have to consider, although breaking reviews out per service would be so much more helpful in trip planning, IMO