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