Re: GroupLens (gnus-gl.el)

[Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>]

Hi,

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>
>> The ideas behind GroupLens seem useful, even though the service has
>> shut down.  Is there any possibility of something similar to GroupLens
>> coming back to Gnus?
>
> I think GroupLens is a really good idea, and it would be nice if
> something like that were to make a return, but it's a major project.
> Especially the bits where you have to moderate the moderators, so
> that the scoring pool isn't poisoned.

But, GroupLens is not supposed to be a moderation system.  It is
supposed to find people who appear to have opinions similar to yours,
and weights the score based on that "closeness" criterion.

It is thus less likely to be poisoned -- unless you are poisonous too :-)

- Hari
PS: Even though GroupLens is/was a project @cs.umn.edu, I'm not part
    of that group

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Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu