So what you're REALLY providing isn't a quote-aggregation service, but rather an intelligent method of showing people content from around the internet based on how much they like a topic.
It's like Pandora but for news.
EDIT: community-powered Pandora but for news?
community-powered Pandora but for news = reddit...?
Re:Review my startup - Quote Feed (step 2)
by DanielBMarkham on Monday March 15, 2010 @05:11PM
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Reddit -> little boxes with items in them. Choose your box
QF -> one big box. Each item is highly-tagged. System chooses combination of tags based on your previous behavior
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Reddit -> Consume based on community score and titles (which can both be wildly gamed)
QF -> Consume based on previewing a piece of the material
Re:Review my startup - Quote Feed (step 2)
by DanielBMarkham on Monday March 15, 2010 @04:47PM
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Yes. Exactly. The quote gives them a sample of the target material so they can decide whether to take time to consume the whole thing.
Then you shouldn't be focusing on the quote itself. The quote is just an efficient preview of the material.
Focus on accurately giving people news they want, and make THAT the selling point.
I'd pay for something like this.
The idea, for registered users, is that you downvote the first U.S. Politics quote you see. Then the system starts sorting those lower. Over time, if you keep training the system, you'll never see a U.S. politics quote.
But for new users, how to handle? Right now for anonymous users I have a basic HN sorting algorithm.What you are saying is that this might not be enough. Should I leave it as is? Should I add some kind of heading or sorting on the page so that people can easily see the topics (topics appear as you mouse over the quote). Not sure.