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Re:When the 'Wisdom of Crowds' turns on itself: IMDB Edition by chandler on Monday July 28, 2008 @10:19PM (#259929)
>> (or perhaps only hidden until after you vote but I don't see why they need to be there period)

That's an interesting point--why does every site need to quantify for the user the particular score of a comment? Why not indicate popularity by simply ordering the comments?

Is it a trust issue?

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Re:When the 'Wisdom of Crowds' turns on itself: IMDB Edition by wmf on Monday July 28, 2008 @10:37PM (#259944)
Karma -> karma whoring -> pageviews -> profit?

Slashdot no longer displays numeric karma and you can disable display of comment scores.

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Re:When the 'Wisdom of Crowds' turns on itself: IMDB Edition by eru on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @07:40AM (#260349)
You could also give other clues besides ordering - without revealing the numbers 'in your face'.
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Re:When the 'Wisdom of Crowds' turns on itself: IMDB Edition by william42 on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @11:49AM (#260647)
What sort of other clues?
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Re:When the 'Wisdom of Crowds' turns on itself: IMDB Edition by eru on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @04:37PM (#261051)
For example color-shading. While it may still be possible to re-extract numbers from the colors --- psychological colors may have another effect than numbers.
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Re:When the 'Wisdom of Crowds' turns on itself: IMDB Edition by eru on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @04:39PM (#261054)
Or perhaps something like Nethack does: http://www.steelypips.org/nethack/pray.html#p0
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Re:When the 'Wisdom of Crowds' turns on itself: IMDB Edition by william42 on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @09:49PM (#262552)
That's sort of like what Slashdot does for karma. "Karma: Excellent"
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