I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about TailRank and the quality of the metadata it finds. One problem is that the author’s original title of the post might not explain what’s happening within a discussion.
For example, this post is simply entitled In which I engage Dave
which is correct but it’s not very descriptive.
A better title could be “Winer and Ratcliffe Argue about the Future of Podcasting.”
Which makes me think that the best approach here could be to allow the community to simply add their own titles. This would essentially be a wiki approach.
I could have the robot do 99% of the work and then the user community could come in and finish the remaining 1%.
Do you think this would get spammed? I was thinking of keeping this open for 24 hours or only allowing a few edits to a title.
Thoughts?
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November 14, 2005 at 4:21 am
The easiest approach is to allow it and let people know about it and see what happens.
If it gets spammed, then disable it.
If people don’t use it, then disable it.
If people use it, and the design works, keep it.
November 14, 2005 at 8:28 am
I agree with Sean. It almost certainly will get spammed (and if it doesn’t get spammed right away, it’s only a matter of time), but you won’t know until you try.
December 15, 2005 at 3:41 pm
What about letting people add to your own tags to a post from somoene else or vote for the ones that are already there and they think are representative of the post content? The blogger could decide whether to enable or not the feature if they think will increase the accuracy of a blog search engine like TailRank when looking for a topic that he is posting about.
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