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A karma weighted neural network. A variant of pagerank. The only thing to worry about is if the karma based penalty function is a good gauge of quality or jus
by aswanson 19y ago
A karma weighted neural network. A variant of pagerank. The only thing to worry about is if the karma based penalty function is a good gauge of quality or just activity.
- robg 19y agoIt needn't be as complicated as a neural net. Just calculate the difference between the editor-based points to each story and the karma-weighted points. I bet that's a closer match than the current no-weight version. If you played with the function, you could even try to approximate the editors from the users. And the beauty here of karma is that it inherently isn't just activity. Fundamentally it is a gauge of quality because people make informed decisions on what to value when they vote. For instance, you could submit every story, every day, from digg's front page and this community won't reward you (much). Better to make more informed decisions about what to submit, if you value your time. The goal isn't submission - it's submission to a community standard.