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by Perceval 17y ago
My principal exposure to Chris Messina was his 50-minute long, rambling vlog about Mozilla's future direction—one that seemed really poorly thought out and ill-considered to me. It apparently irritated a number of folks at Mozilla as well.
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by Perceval 17y ago
There used to be a list of sites run on Scoop software (the CMS that k5 is built on, a counterpart to 'Slashcode' running Slashdot). It used to be hosted at scoop.kuro5hin.org, but rusty let that subdomain fail about a couple months ago an
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by Perceval 17y ago
What made it work, for a while, was that the community voted collectively (and still does) on the submitted articles. There are two queues: the edit queue and the voting queue. You are expected to put your article in the edit queue and de
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by Perceval 17y ago
Rusty no longer wanted to have to deal with dupe hordes gaming the system, crapflooding, griefing, harassing, and so on. The $5 killed user growth, but it also killed 99% of the admin workload. The tradeoff worked for rusty, even though i
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by Perceval 17y ago
The unique thing about k5 was that all the content was written by the users. Every other community on the web is just a link-n-blurb site with a discussion forum bolted on: Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, HN, MetaFilter, and on down the line. Onl
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by Perceval 17y ago
You should have told him not to take a hike then.
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by Perceval 17y ago
Thanks so much! Not having this feature made me feel very insecure whenever using Safari instead of Firefox. Also, a tangential thanks for letting me know that SIMBL had been updated for Snow Leopard. The transition to Safari on Snow Leop
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by Perceval 17y ago
Digg has the phenomenon as well, which they termed the 'bury brigades.' Organized groups of users would bury stories from certain sources/submitters or on certain topics. It ended up engendering a great deal of ill-will.
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by Perceval 17y ago
I think that you've identified an important problem, but I disagree with your approach to solving it. I think you're right that scarcity is a good way to make voting (especially approval-style voting) into something more meaningful. One of
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by Perceval 17y ago
There are voting systems which attempt to detect cliques or rigged voting. These are called "sybil attacks." There is a good deal of academic literature that you can find on the subject, and attempts to reduce the weight of en masse vot
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by Perceval 17y ago
This kind of behavior is exactly what made Digg the useless oligarchy of content promotion that it is. I think asking other people to vote your favored story to the front page is really an exercise in egotism, and it kinda misses the point.
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by Perceval 17y ago
I wonder to what degree their de-listing efforts are algorithmically driven (using Page^H^H^H^HSpamRank™), and to what degree they are ad hoc reactions to obvious/reported abuse.
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by Perceval 17y ago
No no. I don't mean locating good content and putting it in a directory. I mean actively searching out bad content and then making sure that it never appears. Google's approach is to actively search out good content and try to make that r
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by Perceval 17y ago
It might interesting to try and design a reverse-search engine, a kind of internet spam filter. Instead of being designed to promote relevant content, it would be designed to explicitly not return crap content. Rather than trying to impr
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by Perceval 17y ago
It's probably a feature not a bug, designed to automatically de-sensationalize sensationalist titles!!!
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by Perceval 17y ago
In Gödel Escher Bach , Hofstadter has three sections on "chunking." Chunking is distinguished from the type of branching calculation of future moves. Rather than evaluating linear move-countermove-move branches, humans can also evaluate
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by Perceval 17y ago
I'm working on a dissertation linking the international balance of power to the characteristics of civil wars during three periods: pre-Cold War, Cold War, and post-Cold War.
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by Perceval 17y ago
David Foster Wallace has a sort of fatalistic view toward the balance between freedom and safety, arguing that we ought to have just accepted that people will die if we are to live in a free society: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/w
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by Perceval 17y ago
FTA: "This research was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research." Interesting to see the kind of practical basic research being done by the military. Their website is interesting: http://www.wpafb.af.mil/AFRL/afosr/
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by Perceval 17y ago
Actually MultiVac sounds closer to Wolfram|Alpha, especially the data being curated by civil servants, and only subsequently analyzed/interpreted/correlated by the computer.
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by Perceval 17y ago
I saw a quote somewhere that read, "A knowledge economy is a secret society." Ideally knowledge isn't zero-sum. In practice, knowledge is power, and power is zero-sum.
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by Perceval 17y ago
Indeed. Can Google be sued for this kind of search capability: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22always%20sunny%20in%20phil...
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by Perceval 17y ago
Some folks are already working on that: http://stupidfilter.org/main/ It's supposed to identify formally stupid comments, i.e. those that have bad spelling and txt abbreviations, etc. It doesn't do anything about substantive stupidity,
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by Perceval 17y ago
Here's a blog that might be relevant: http://buildingreputation.com/
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by Perceval 17y ago
I've posted this on HN before, but I wrote a long essay about problems with account-karma-moderation systems: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000 Probably too involved for your project, but there are some problems you shoul
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by Perceval 17y ago
The influx of people interesting in fighting Scientology had little negative effect on the morals/behavior of the people hanging out on /b/. I think you're right that the community changed, but not for the worse in terms that non-/b/tards
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by Perceval 17y ago
I guess I'll be the first to speak up in defense of m♡♡tles speaking at TED. It's clear that he's relevant to the HN community, given that 4chan is a startup begun from his mom's basement when he was just 15 years old. Despite misinformati
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by Perceval 17y ago
You wrote: Sarbox has driven up audit costs for startups as well. That's exactly what legislators and regulators in DC never seem to understand. Every politician repeats bromides about the small businesses and how they're the engine
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by Perceval 17y ago
Ranking +101/-100 comments higher than +1/-0 comments is something that they implemented at reddit a couple months ago. They use an algorithm called a "Wilson Score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter." Here are some relevant lin
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by Perceval 17y ago
I dislike agree/disagree voting overall. We all dislike groupthink, and we all appreciate constructive informative posts, and we all like differing viewpoints. So why have a moderation system that records or values agreement/disagreement

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