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I always thought Advogato's trust metric[1] was really interesting. It was part of Raph Levine's (of libart and Ghostscript fame) PhD thesis, but he later switc
by metajack 14y ago
I always thought Advogato's trust metric[1] was really interesting. It was part of Raph Levine's (of libart and Ghostscript fame) PhD thesis, but he later switched topics. As I recall it worked fairly well, but Advogato was a small community and probably wasn't yet susceptible to most of the problems of simple voting.
ku5oshin also had a unique peer-review style system that seemed quite well thought out.
Slashdot had meta-voting, which was pretty neat.
It amazes me that after a decade of this, there is very little innovation. At least the communities back then were trying hard to find novel solutions. Instead of trying to figure out new mechanisms that are resistant to common abuses, everyone seems to focus on finding and punishing the cheaters. You can never catch them all, and it doesn't seem to scale well.
[1] http://advogato.org/trust-metric.html http://advogato.org/trust-metric.html
- cookiecaper 14y agoWe need an open platform that allows easy experimentation and plugging of vote algorithms and balances. I've been working on building one, but it still has a ways to go. Even basic reddit/digg clones are scant to non-existent, so we've been working on covering most of that space. For the curious: http://github.com/sjuxax/raggregate http://github.com/sjuxax/raggregate .
- nwzpaperman 14y agoif you're aggregating and ranking third party content you will always be constrained with your options.
- sjs382 14y agoI miss K5 sooooo much. I don't think we'll ever see a community like that again...
- vy8vWJlco 14y agoWhy the past tense? Kuro5hin.org is still online. Is this article lamenting a loss of quality, or the loss of the sense of intrigue and community associated with any small or secretive club? I'm not convinced quality has suffered, only that more people using them leads to more articles and more debate, destroying the sense that one is in the know on all the (smaller number of) news items from the day, and that their opinion is important (because there are less people to debate it).
- sjs382 14y agoK5 was a very different place years ago than it is now.
- jacques_chester 14y agoWhile reading the post, I too was thinking of the Slashdot / K5 / Advogato examples. It's weird to me that there are millions of professional nerds for whom this trifecta is not a critical historical influence. Or even in their mind. At all. Anyway; the cycle of blooming and decay is as old as people. I don't think there is a "solution". Just gotta accept it.
- nwzpaperman 14y agoTo accept something less than potential is a cop-out. Solutions materialize, but it's never an all-at-once event. Printers evolved substantially from Gutenberg's such that we have personal high-volume color laserjets sitting near us with WiFi connections and AES encryption.
- jacques_chester 14y agoSome problems can't be solved.