In a small Virginia town, citizens review police like Uber drivers

Re:In a small Virginia town, citizens review police like Ube... by throwaway787544 on Thursday June 02, 2022 @12:46PM (#31597270)

But this is also a premature optimization and potentially YAGNI. Yes, you want down-weighting because of one potential complication. But you haven't even built and operated this system yet, so you don't know if this workaround you're applying will even be necessary or will end up causing larger issues.

One example of this is "voter fraud". It is possible to commit voter fraud, and so certain parties want strong identity guarantees to vote. But voter fraud isn't happening in practice, and stringent ID requirements actually suppress minority votes.

It is better to implement the simplest possible system first, observe it, and fix problems later as needed, after careful analysis of the running system.

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Re:In a small Virginia town, citizens review police like Ube... by thfuran on Thursday June 02, 2022 @01:03PM (#31597546)

>YAGNI

But not the ordinary YAGNI. You're Absolutely going to need some way of dealing with low-quality input.

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Re:In a small Virginia town, citizens review police like Ube... by throwaway787544 on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:39PM (#31611365)

Why? What's the worst thing that could happen from poor quality input? Unreliable scores? These reviews don't mean or do anything in the real world, and it's much less serious than an actual IA complaint. There's also no evidence that there would be enough poor quality inputs to make a meaningful impact on scores.

You really should wait and see before you invest a ton of time and money into solving problems that end up not being problems.

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Re:In a small Virginia town, citizens review police like Ube... by thfuran on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:43AM (#31620887)

>Why? What's the worst thing that could happen from poor quality input? Unreliable scores? These reviews don't mean or do anything in the real world

If you are actually operating under the assumption that the output doesn't matter at all, then implementing the review system in the first place is a waste of effort, let alone any features thereof. But assuming that we do care about the output, its quality does matter.

>There's also no evidence that there would be enough poor quality inputs to make a meaningful impact on scores.

In pretty much the same way that there's no evidence that any given new website needs to worry about sql injection.

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