[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 23:00:18 UTC 2011


On Sep 4, 2011 11:34 PM, "Andre Engels" <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com
>wrote:
>
> > The selection of labels isn't supposed to be unbiased. Users select
> > whichever labels they want. All you have to do is make sure it's easy
> > for people to create new labels if none of the existing ones fit their
> > needs, and you're sorted.
> >
>
> That won't work, for several reasons. First, the proposal as made in the
> referendum talks about 5 to 10 categories. Thus, after 10 people have
> created their labels, there are none left.

That was just an example. There's no reason the final implementation has to
work that way.

>Second, even if they create
> labels, there needs to be someone to do the labelling - asking someone who
> doesn't want to see certain pictures to select all such pictures himself
by
> hand doesn't seem to be a very effective way of working if he really does
> not want to see the pictures.

I don't think that will actually be a problem. There are plenty of people
that want to tell other people what not to look at but don't feel bound by
the same rules themselves. They can label the images.


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