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is it not the same as up or down vote, but diff words

• mooism2 17y ago
  I'm basically saying that the votes should be counted differently. Current approach: * cat photo gets upvoted by 70 people * article about using Haskell to frob whirnicators gets upvoted by 50 die-hard functional programming enthusiasts and downvoted by 100 Java/C#/Ruby fans Current result: * cat photo appears at the top of the front page * Haskell article gets buried Better approach: * cat photo gets upvoted by 70 people, but their voting habits mostly don't correlate with mine * Haskell article gets upvoted by 50 people who mostly vote the same way as me, and downvoted by 100 people who mostly vote differently Better result: * Haskell article appears at the top of the front page when I look at it * cat photo still gets front-paged, but not so prominently
  • jacquesm 17y ago
    Yay, someone gets it :) Personalized news scoring and filtering.
  • bgm 17y ago
    Would not that fail, if you are just a reader and a submitter only and probably just a vote here or there a day for something you really like
    • jacquesm 17y ago
      It would take some time. But like with every learning activity the more time you spend on it the faster it goes. In this case you're training a piece of software by showing it your responses to the input it presents you with. Over time it can get smarter. By correlating the activity of several users it might get smarter faster than if it just had you to observe.