On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Cathal Garvey <[email protected]> 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 http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507
