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A metric for measuring the growing entropy on social news sites.
Had this idea right now; in lieu of a formal blog to post this, I'm posting this here. Would love some feedback (or anyone interested in implementing).
- AlexeyMK 18y agoHad this idea just now. pg's reason for hackernews, from what I understood, was the decreasing quality of conversation on reddit. It may be interesting to see if this can be measured and qualified, and what applications this may have. The approach should also work on blogs (measure comment quality, etc) and news sites (cnn.com vs economist.com). Would love any feedback and anyone interested in implementing.