Re:Apply HN: Agora – social network for debates on local and...
by Goalie27 on Friday April 08, 2016 @12:55AM
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Overall I like the idea. My main question would be how do you keep it from becoming an echo chamber or an all out brawl?
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Re:Apply HN: Agora – social network for debates on local and...
by SherlockeHolmes on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:25AM
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Thank you for two very relevant questions! We will develop an algorithm that will compare "debate topics" by analyzing their "initiators", text content, and "evidences". This algorithm will assign a correlation factor to all possible one-to-one comparisons from domain of "debate topics". Any two "debate topics" with factor exceeding a threshold may be integrated together.
Required minimum word counts for all responses, post flagging system at user-end, and algorithms searching for abusive language will all be used to prevent all-out brawls from breaking out.
These are among important parameters that will be under observation starting in the development stage. We will learn from our experience and improve our algorithms.