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Re: RATINGS: Subject tags
For quite a while now, I have been advocating a rating system based
on *calculating correlations* of people's interests in each topic domain.
This allows to:
- give personalized ratings to each user;
- filter out any number of "evil tentacles" recommending you junk;
- suggest incentives to each user to rate articles;
- introduce digicash payments for all messages and ratings;
- implicitly use quality criteria that are difficult to formalize;
- find like-minded people, even if you never post anything
In short, it works like this:
you read stuff, if you like it, you pay for it as much as you want;
what you pay is considered your rating of the article; the System
calculates correlations of your ratings with everybody else's;
you can select articles that people with your interests in the given
area liked most; so it makes sense for you to pay and be sincere -
otherwise the system may not work for you, and you will read too
much junk. Also, people whose ratings helped you choose it, can get
some share of your payment - another incentive to read early and
carefully, and be fair (you can actually earn credits as a critic).
Authors can establish minimal payments for their texts, but it will
be not their advertizing headers, but the opinions of like-minded
with *you* people that will help you choose texts.
I have a more or less detailed development proposal for such a system
and would be happy to share it if anybody is interested.
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