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A comment on Popularity Dynamics and Intrinsic Quality in Reddit and Hacker News (2015) [pdf].

Re:Popularity Dynamics and Intrinsic Quality in Reddit and H... by pjc50 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @07:10AM (#18300000)
"Intrinsic quality" is a terrible name - it should be something like "decontextualised quality" or "neutrally presented quality", because it's still an aggregate subjective view on the quality of the article.
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Re:Popularity Dynamics and Intrinsic Quality in Reddit and H... by platz on Thursday October 25, 2018 @09:15AM (#18300623)
Why use a word like "quality" at all here.

It seems unnecessary. They should've just used "estimated votes" , since that is what they are, or something derived from votes.

Quality is almost content-free and worst case is chosen in bad faith or hubris to make the result seem more important

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