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I'm interested in these mathematical models used for content filtering, and I made up a little thought experiment as an exercise, but somehow it was too convolu

I'm interested in these mathematical models used for content filtering, and I made up a little thought experiment as an exercise, but somehow it was too convoluted and I couldn't get an answer. Basically it ended up being something like, how many cookies would you give to a well-behaving kid? Yeah, it's about as general as that, although I had all these different rules for the game. It seems rather futile to predict it beforehand, so I decided that I would just run the system and see what happens. After I fix up the horrible UI... Digg and reddit do it in the most straightforward manner. Slashdot is good because it actually matches up with some material in conversation theory. The metrics they chose are pretty good. The rating system though, not good enough. I agree that the tech-specific language acts as a filter itself, but from a different perspective, I realized that Slashdot's modding system's UI and rules are probably a filter too. i.e., if you are willing to learn all the modding rules, and use the modding system, you've passed the "ritual." To the average user, these complications may well be intolerable. I need to figure out what's tolerable, soon :)

Jd 19y ago
Here's one model I'd be interested in testing. Three roles: basic, member, and administrator. Each account has karma (natural numbers), but the exact of karma is invisible to all except the administrator. There is a karma meter which displays karma as a color gradient with different levels assigned different colors. Content rating is done on a color gradient, from white to blue. Blue is good, white is bad, light blue would be okay. Only members can rate content. Rating would be also be weighted according to the karma of the person doing the rating. In other words, members with more karma would give (or take away) more karma per rating. Each post would receive a default rating based on the karma of the poster, which would display as a color on the white to blue spectrum already described. The color would change as people rate the content. Not only comments, but also threads could have ratings on a similar basis. This would allow people to set up certain filters so they would view threads with a certain content rating. Probably a person could automatically become a member when they pass some arbitrary karma threshold. What do you think about this? Are you already working on something 'tolerable'?
- whacked_new 19y ago
  Similar, but a non-karma karma system. :) One thing though, I am fairly uncertain about the color gradient. In the beginning I used red-green. But some cultures have the order reversed, and total red and total green excite the eyes differently. Then I opted for using colorless-color (white-"gold", since gold is supposed to be culture-neutral), but when I showed some people they were confused and told me to use red-green :/ I also considered the "full functionality after x threshold" but It's opaque to me what would be a reasonable x. I hope I'll be able to make a judgement later, based on real user data.
  - Jd 19y ago
    Yeah, I'm not big on the word 'karma' myself, but it happens to be what is out there. I'm not sure about 'x threshold' either. If 'karma' assignment is weighted it wouldn't matter much anyways. As for colors, what about a bar that increases vertically and has multiple segments? Higher is better and darker? This would give people two things to lock onto, just in case color is not enough. just my two beans...

Jd 19y ago

Here's one model I'd be interested in testing. Three roles: basic, member, and administrator. Each account has karma (natural numbers), but the exact of karma is invisible to all except the administrator. There is a karma meter which displays karma as a color gradient with different levels assigned different colors. Content rating is done on a color gradient, from white to blue. Blue is good, white is bad, light blue would be okay. Only members can rate content. Rating would be also be weighted according to the karma of the person doing the rating. In other words, members with more karma would give (or take away) more karma per rating. Each post would receive a default rating based on the karma of the poster, which would display as a color on the white to blue spectrum already described. The color would change as people rate the content. Not only comments, but also threads could have ratings on a similar basis. This would allow people to set up certain filters so they would view threads with a certain content rating. Probably a person could automatically become a member when they pass some arbitrary karma threshold. What do you think about this? Are you already working on something 'tolerable'?

whacked_new 19y ago
Similar, but a non-karma karma system. :) One thing though, I am fairly uncertain about the color gradient. In the beginning I used red-green. But some cultures have the order reversed, and total red and total green excite the eyes differently. Then I opted for using colorless-color (white-"gold", since gold is supposed to be culture-neutral), but when I showed some people they were confused and told me to use red-green :/ I also considered the "full functionality after x threshold" but It's opaque to me what would be a reasonable x. I hope I'll be able to make a judgement later, based on real user data.
- Jd 19y ago
  Yeah, I'm not big on the word 'karma' myself, but it happens to be what is out there. I'm not sure about 'x threshold' either. If 'karma' assignment is weighted it wouldn't matter much anyways. As for colors, what about a bar that increases vertically and has multiple segments? Higher is better and darker? This would give people two things to lock onto, just in case color is not enough. just my two beans...