Hi all, 2009/7/2 Tim Hawkins <tim.hawk...@mac.com>: > I would agree that The yahoo Answers model represents a "wisdom of the > crowds" approach, and you are correct > in your assessment that this can lead to distortions. [...] > On yahoo answers many of the responses that are chosen as top answers, > are subjective in nature, a well written individual > who writes a convincing or "populist" response to a question, but > supplies completely wrong information, could easily be promoted > over a response that was less polished, but however factually correct.
Perhaps in the hypothetical Ubuntu system, wildly popular answers could be periodically reviewed by "gurus". > I would propose that we have a better metric for selecting the best > answer, in that the person posing the question could select the > answer that fixed the problem for them, again this ties in with the > task orientated nature of this approach. A question like "how do i get > the audio level to persist on my aspire one" would generally solicit a > number of answers, but only if the answer fixes the problem for the > questioner should it be chosen as the best answer. > [...] I like this. So maybe a rating system more along the lines of, "Did this answer fix your problem?", instead of, "Digg it". Regards, Evan R. Murphy -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
