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Re: by johnfn on Sunday May 29, 2011 @01:46PM (#2597073)
The problem with the upvote/downvote mechanism for things like books is that popular books tend to get voted higher than better, less popular books. If only 5 people have heard of a book, but they all think it's amazing, it should probably be around equal or higher than a book that a hundred people read and all thought was okay.
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Re: by Soapy_Illusions on Sunday May 29, 2011 @01:49PM (#2597080)
Come on we have an entire community of math and computer science wizards here, I think heuristics like that can be quite easily written. Especially using a tab for "Popular Books" and another "Highly Rated"
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Re: by johnfn on Sunday May 29, 2011 @02:16PM (#2597134)
Of course. It's not a hard problem to solve, but it is one to consider.
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