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Interesting, but how is the trust signal measured? I couldn’t find this information
by cpa 6mo ago
Interesting, but how is the trust signal measured? I couldn’t find this information
- cobertos 6mo agoI'm pretty sure it's based off of the configuration in the green gear in the top right of the iframe. You can inspect the ways it's calculated from karma, comments, etc etc
- CalRobert 6mo agoIf you look at the config it's based on karma, comments, submission rate, comment rate (optional), and account age (that is, if you trust it actually uses the config how it says)
- angry_octet 6mo agoThere are some high karma accounts which make a great contribution, and others which ... don't. I'm doubtful whether karma or account age has a significant signal beyond anti-spam. But it would be useful to know if I had up/down voted them significantly in the past.
- krapp 6mo agoThe only thing karma reliably indicates is participation over time, the signal is too noisy for anything else. If anything high karma should be a red flag. The very best contributors here rarely comment because they have better things to do. It shows an 8/8 score for me and I doubt anyone would consider me a top tier high quality contributor. A plugin like HN Comments Owl would be more useful IMHO.
- angry_octet 6mo agoAs if to demonstrate my point, two high karma accounts have down voted my suggestion that karma is meaningful. Naturally they are too craven to enter the field.
- annie511266728 6mo agoIf it’s not transparent, it kind of defeats the whole idea of a “trust” signal — at that point it’s just a number you either believe or ignore.
- xnx 6mo ago"trust me bro" signal