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I want peer reviewed lists-- your post will in theory burn the time of 1000 people or whatever. Yet the first person who reads it might see holes in it that ma
by nullc 3y ago
I want peer reviewed lists-- your post will in theory burn the time of 1000 people or whatever. Yet the first person who reads it might see holes in it that make it a waste of time to read. So instead, have it go to a couple people first.
Better posters could do this themselves (at least for new threads), but its the people who don't care much about the quality of their posts that need it the most.
I think the challenge is that it'll only work if there is a high enough density of sophisticated participants that can understand that a reviewers role isn't to agree or not, but to help make the time spend reading it by all the other readers as well spent as it can be. But where it could work, it could be a big improvement. -- think of all the posts that the author would skip when someone just points them to where it was discussed before.
- KirillPanov 3y ago> understand that a reviewers role isn't to agree or not Humans are universally terrible at doing this. IMHO the only hope is to give them two voting axes, so they can placate their lizard-brain's "downvote to disagree" impulse but still apply a separate but positive expository-quality rating. If you only collect the latter kind of rating it won't work. TL;DR: in addition to thumbs-up/thumbs-down, give people poop-emoji/gold-star. I would hand out a lot of poopy-thumbs-up votes.
- pixl97 3y agoThe fact multi-axis voting has not taken off really has made the internet a worse place.
- gmfawcett 3y ago+2 Insightful!
- KirillPanov 3y agoSlashdot's system came close, but it only did half of what's necessary. IIRC there were no options where the +number and label disagreed -- they didn't have "+1 Spammy" or "-1 Insightful".
- hawk_ 3y ago> Yet the first person who reads it might see holes in it that make it a waste of time to read. So instead, have it go to a couple people first. Sounds like upvote/downvote in a subreddit...?
- nullc 3y agoThat's more of a popularity contest than peer review. A reviewer could give you feedback like "I can't figure out what you're talking about could you add citations for FIZBUZZ and FOOBAR?" or "What you're suggesting appears to be the same as this 2013 proposal. If what you're proposing is different or if you think the idea will work this time could you explain?" The end result is a post which is higher quality rather than just a competition for the hottest hottakes.