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Re:Design: Voting up or Down is Dead by greendestiny on Sunday October 14, 2007 @10:36PM (#67859)
Individual recommendations don't fine tune social news, they destroy it. You no longer have a shared resource and the communication becomes very indirect.
Re:Design: Voting up or Down is Dead by utnick on Sunday October 14, 2007 @10:42PM (#67866)
If you make the magic good enough, the filtering system will only filter out stories that the reader wouldn't read or comment on anyways. So it won't really affect the community.