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Who needs quality in comments? Certainly, not the old media. All they need are clicks, views and users' engagement. It's quite often to see an obvious flamebait
by bgarbiak 12y ago
Who needs quality in comments? Certainly, not the old media. All they need are clicks, views and users' engagement.
It's quite often to see an obvious flamebait promoted to a "featured comment", etc.
- mkagenius 12y agoAt Yahoo, we tried a little to improve comment quality. We tried to rank comments based on its text quality using machine learning (some of the features were hate words, grammar error, CAPITAL letters). We hope that seeing well written comments at the top can trigger a better discussion than just top voted ones. Here is the paper: http://ip.com/IPCOM/000230875 http://ip.com/IPCOM/000230875
- mkohlmyr 12y agoIf you're doing research at Yahoo, why on earth would you feel the need to put your papers behind a paywall?