The existence of a rating, no matter what it is, generates an emotional engagement. "2.7? What idiots hate this? The kitten is a genius!".
When I was involved in such a system, I wanted to randomly generate ratings. There is no SLA in a consumer site where you watch videos for free. You might get away with this if you only do a random sample of your quality videos. On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > I bet the name becomes very appropriate very quickly. > > The other category of repeated viewing is click-spamming. They are very > much worth ignoring as well. > > In any case, I have found that it is very important to almost entirely > ignore the number of times that somebody interacts with a media item (music > and video are what I have worked on) and instead look at the number of user > who have done such interactions. Recommendation quality goes up > substantially with this step. > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On May 20, 2011, at 10:11 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: >> >> > Also, from a practical point of view, people rarely watch videos >> repeatedly, >> > even if they like them and want to see more. >> > >> > (people - excluding two year olds who will watch something they like >> until >> > it wears out) >> >> I would extend that from 2 y.o. to about 18 y.o, but for sure at least 9 >> y.o. based on first hand experience, esp. w/ ones that are popular in their >> peer group. I think every time my son has a friend over, he shows them the >> "Annoying Orange" on YouTube ("Hey Apple!") >> >> > -- Lance Norskog [email protected]
