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That's an interesting idea. What decides on the best answers to return, community votes? What incentive do people have to submit summaries? Could dmoz.org be
by timf 18y ago
That's an interesting idea. What decides on the best answers to return, community votes? What incentive do people have to submit summaries? Could dmoz.org be leveraged or used instead for the same effect?
- amichail 18y agoI'm still thinking about incentives. As to why you might want to submit a short intro for someone else's site: perhaps it's because your own link(s) would become more highly ranked in a related links section. As to why people would vote on the best intros... perhaps that could be done in a transparent way. If you are not satisfied with some intro(s), you could request more, thus implicitly downvoting what you have seen so far.
- amichail 18y agoI think I have a way to get people to vote on site intros. The idea is to split the intro into two parts, say "why" and "how". The user would be shown only one part. Say the user starts with "why". At this point the user can indicate that he/she understands why and now wants to see how. This upvotes the intro. The user could indicate that the why is not clear and he/she wants to see another why. This downvotes the intro. Once the user sees the how, he/she may indicate that the how is unclear and he/she wants to see another how. This downvotes the intro by 2 (because it was upvoted earlier).