Snobbism-less way to save hacker-news from becoming another digg/reddit

Re:Snobbism-less way to save hacker-news from becoming anoth... by gaika on Monday March 24, 2008 @05:56AM (#144452)

Trust and reputation are always in context, current karma system ignores it. But once you add context visualizing and interpreting karma becomes hard. Take a look of how we're trying to deal with this problem (link in my profile, sick of being accused of spamming, sorry).

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Re:Snobbism-less way to save hacker-news from becoming anoth... by rms on Monday March 24, 2008 @06:17AM (#144457)

I have an account there but I'm unclear on what you're doing differently with reputation..

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Re:Snobbism-less way to save hacker-news from becoming anoth... by tim2 on Monday March 24, 2008 @06:32AM (#144459)

Utilizing reputations through clustering of voting histories in order to produce their recommendations is a pretty good description of what's going on there now. Next they're planning on giving you even more control by allowing you to control who you trust directly. This combined system should be the special sauce that really solves this problem, I think.

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Re:Snobbism-less way to save hacker-news from becoming anoth... by gaika on Monday March 24, 2008 @10:59AM (#144590)

It is using machine learning approach to estimate what the impact of your feedback should be. That way it is depends on context (only topics / tags right now) and is gaming proof (i.e. you can give as much feedback as you want, that would only improve your reputation / predictions for you by the system).

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