Users can rate community notes, not sure if the rating is taken into consideration.
Re:Vitalik Buterin on Twitter Community Notes
by emilecantin on Monday August 28, 2023 @09:57AM
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90% of the article is about HOW the ratings are taken into consideration...
Re:Vitalik Buterin on Twitter Community Notes
by Hamuko on Monday August 28, 2023 @02:02PM
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Which sounds like a pretty terrible idea in itself. At least to me, it would sound pretty chaotic if the edit that wins out on Wikipedia is the one that receives the most votes by other Wikipedia users, and if you wanted to get something on Wikipedia fixed, you'd need to gather enough people to support your fix over the previous version.
I've ran into issues with Wikipedia mods ignoring sources and going off whatever priors they had, but at least then I was able to just passive-aggressively berate them on the talk page to get them to bend.
Re:Vitalik Buterin on Twitter Community Notes
by MichaelZuo on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @01:56PM
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What's the alternative method for credibly neutral decision making on a public internet site anyone can participate in?
Re:Vitalik Buterin on Twitter Community Notes
by Hamuko on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @09:33AM
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"Alternative" method for "credibly neutral decision" would imply that there exists one already.
Re:Vitalik Buterin on Twitter Community Notes
by MichaelZuo on Friday September 01, 2023 @12:50AM
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It seems a large number of HN users, judging by this post, believes that community notes is credibly neutral.
Re:Vitalik Buterin on Twitter Community Notes
by chrisco255 on Monday August 28, 2023 @05:50PM
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I don't know if community notes takes this into account, but you could weight bias according to how a contributor has voted in the past and medianize the output to prevent "dogpiling" or "brigading" from one side or the other.
Re:Vitalik Buterin on Twitter Community Notes
by jaybaxter on Monday August 28, 2023 @05:59PM
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Indeed, it does this!
>For a note to achieve a high intercept term (which is the note’s helpfulness score), it must be rated helpful by raters with a diversity of viewpoints (factor embeddings)
https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/under-the-hood/r...
Re:Vitalik Buterin on Twitter Community Notes
by ewi_ on Monday August 28, 2023 @05:58PM
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> I don't know if community notes takes this into account, but
That's most of the article. If you're asking yourself that, you should read it
Re:Vitalik Buterin on Twitter Community Notes
by hajile on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @10:56AM
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Wikipedia is WAY worse because they enshrine particular editors over particular sets of pages (esp. political ones) to make sure the edits only go the way those people want.
Anyone can review community notes and mark them as useful/not useful.
Community Notes are not written or curated by some centrally selected set of experts; rather, they can be written and voted on by anyone ... It's not perfect, but it's surprisingly close to satisfying the ideal of credible neutrality...
Well, that's the optimistic pro. But the con is that if a particular demographic is more drawn to contributing to those notes (or comes to overwhelm Twitter itself), we will see the same problems of bias we see on Wikipedia in (say) social-cultural subjects which - whatever it results in - is certainly not "credible neutrality".