The defaults were set ridiculously low, and I dislike the thought that a handful of ideologically motivated people could effectively Memory Hole topics and opinions they disliked.
This is yet another opportunity for me to opine about the pitiful state of collaborative filtering on web site software. It was about a zillion times better 20 years ago with mailing list software and Usenet.
Usenet killfiles allowed an elaborate scoring system.
The Extropian mailing list, which I’m sure has a few refugees here, was a mix of collaborative filtering and user scoring. I didn’t use it extensively, but it was there.
Me too.
The defaults were set ridiculously low, and I dislike the thought that a handful of ideologically motivated people could effectively Memory Hole topics and opinions they disliked.
This is yet another opportunity for me to opine about the pitiful state of collaborative filtering on web site software. It was about a zillion times better 20 years ago with mailing list software and Usenet.
What did they have that worked better?
Usenet killfiles allowed an elaborate scoring system.
The Extropian mailing list, which I’m sure has a few refugees here, was a mix of collaborative filtering and user scoring. I didn’t use it extensively, but it was there.