this seems to be a common problem with big blogs that have lots of excellent content but even more chaff.
I’ll go so far as to say that this is a massive unsolved problem: (Semi-)automatically seperating the noise from the signal in the space of documents. Voting systems partially solve this problem but don’t scale, see for example Reddit’s subreddits as they grow in size.
Subreddits are still pretty good in that when I am researching a new area, I can look for the top rated posts of all time in a particular subreddit and get some good information.
I’ll go so far as to say that this is a massive unsolved problem: (Semi-)automatically seperating the noise from the signal in the space of documents. Voting systems partially solve this problem but don’t scale, see for example Reddit’s subreddits as they grow in size.
Subreddits are still pretty good in that when I am researching a new area, I can look for the top rated posts of all time in a particular subreddit and get some good information.