Suggest High-Signal Crew Ditch This for Reddit

Bryan Bishop kanzure at gmail.com
Fri Oct 16 14:06:37 PDT 2015


On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Cathal Garvey
<cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
> is probably going to get this already. CPunks is more noise than signal,
> even if the signal part is pretty good.

Generally there is no formula for how to find or maintain high-signal.
Would be interesting to have some more formal definition around this
and then whether it actually applies to online communities. Next,
given that, you could maybe come up with an impossibility proof so
that we can stop wasting our time chasing the next greatest way to
rank terrible content.

I am reminded of this proposal for ranking and rating:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1234&cid=1699774

- Bryan
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