On 24/05/07, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
although for the Wikipedia it could be done on every request, since there's very limited commercial benefit to gaming our search results). At least, the above is my best guess as to what some kind of automated feedback mechanism would look like :-)
Sorry, but i disagree. There is bad people outside. If this system comes public, expect hundreds of votes (from the same ip) on "Cat" for "John's cat shop" Also, scoring opens an easy way to "google bombing". At the very least, it shouldn't be available to anonymous users. And even better if it also counts that the user is autoconfirmed not blocked and with more than 10 edits :P
Nah. Try it first and see how stupid the outside world is. There's no point protecting against an effect you haven't measured, and there's no reason to *use* outside votes just because you've *gathered* them.
- d.