Agreed, and I would add to that list a feature I’ve wanted to see for a long time on really large networks: complex filter criteria that support spreading activation networks of vote weight.
For example, a standard filter for “entries highly upvoted by people who tend to upvote the same kinds of things that i do, and/or highly downvoted by people who tend to downvote the kinds of things that I upvote,” allowing a single system to support communities in strong disagreement with one another.
Relatedly, a spreading rule such that a new entry by a users whose entries I tend to rate highly inherits a high default rating, and therefore appears on my filters.
For example, a standard mechanism for “assemble a reading list with 30% things I would upvote for agreement, 65% things I would upvote for interest, and 5% things I would downvote for disagreement ”
Etc.
Of course, someplace like LW is too small to need that sort of thing.
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Agreed, and I would add to that list a feature I’ve wanted to see for a long time on really large networks: complex filter criteria that support spreading activation networks of vote weight.
For example, a standard filter for “entries highly upvoted by people who tend to upvote the same kinds of things that i do, and/or highly downvoted by people who tend to downvote the kinds of things that I upvote,” allowing a single system to support communities in strong disagreement with one another.
Relatedly, a spreading rule such that a new entry by a users whose entries I tend to rate highly inherits a high default rating, and therefore appears on my filters.
For example, a standard mechanism for “assemble a reading list with 30% things I would upvote for agreement, 65% things I would upvote for interest, and 5% things I would downvote for disagreement ”
Etc.
Of course, someplace like LW is too small to need that sort of thing.
A recommendation system for comments would be fine. People who liked this comment also liked...
Discussion is probably about the number one collective intelligence app. FriendFeed and Google Wave didn’t really make it—and commenting is currently a disaster. That needs fixing.