[sldev] Research on flagging/rating systems? (Re: Your Feedback Wanted on Search Flagging !)

Jason Giglio gigstaggart at gmail.com
Sun May 4 14:46:14 PDT 2008


Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> Something else: acceptance or mere inaction should not imply approval.
>   * A resident may disapprove of the whole system, or only use it to  
> flag spam.
>   * A resident may merely be reluctant to use the system.
>   * A reluctant user's flag would seem to be more important.

I'm not sure that's a bad thing.  If you hate the system so much that
you never use it, yet you still find an entry objectionable enough to
flag, that entry must be pretty bad.

Really I'd be more worried about there being no server-side way to
determine this implicit approval.  Also it wouldn't be too hard for
someone to implicitly approve a few thousand messages with a bot, since
most of them won't be incorrect (most entries are legit), and boost a
bad weight that way.
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