As I get closer to posting my proposal to build a social network that operates on curators recommended via webs of trust, it is becoming easier for me to question existing collaborative filtering processes.
And, damn, scores on posts are pretty much meaningless if you don’t know how many people have seen the post, how many tried to read it, how many read all of it, and what the up/down ratio is. If you’re missing one of those pieces of information, then there exists an explanation for a low score that has no relationship to the post’s quality, and you can’t use the score to make a decision as to whether to give it a chance.
As I get closer to posting my proposal to build a social network that operates on curators recommended via webs of trust, it is becoming easier for me to question existing collaborative filtering processes.
And, damn, scores on posts are pretty much meaningless if you don’t know how many people have seen the post, how many tried to read it, how many read all of it, and what the up/down ratio is. If you’re missing one of those pieces of information, then there exists an explanation for a low score that has no relationship to the post’s quality, and you can’t use the score to make a decision as to whether to give it a chance.