Comments on: iRATE http://www.bradsucks.net/archives/2003/11/20/irate/ A one man band with no fans Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:11:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ken http://www.bradsucks.net/archives/2003/11/20/irate/comment-page-1/#comment-689 Ken Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bradsucks.net/archives/2003/11/20/irate/#comment-689 I don't know. The problem with collaborative voting is that people are more likely to vote for things that are already popular. Like on MP3.com, the "top 40 songs" list allowed you to listen to them straight from the homepage. So, of course, they stayed popular. I think "Red Delicious" was in the top 40 for something like 3 years. Also, there's something to be said for a few people with good taste making choices as opposed to everybody with questionable taste making choices. I still think that it needs to be a concerted effort by a few individuals. I don’t know. The problem with collaborative voting is that people are more likely to vote for things that are already popular. Like on MP3.com, the “top 40 songs” list allowed you to listen to them straight from the homepage. So, of course, they stayed popular. I think “Red Delicious” was in the top 40 for something like 3 years.

Also, there’s something to be said for a few people with good taste making choices as opposed to everybody with questionable taste making choices. I still think that it needs to be a concerted effort by a few individuals.

]]> By: Don http://www.bradsucks.net/archives/2003/11/20/irate/comment-page-1/#comment-690 Don Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bradsucks.net/archives/2003/11/20/irate/#comment-690 It actually seems to work pretty well. I think it means collaborative in the sense that it compares your ratings for songs with those of people who rate the same songs similarly, not which songs are most popular. It did a great job of finding the psiloveyou song Jack Shite put on the Outside the Inbox disc, which is still making me laugh =p It actually seems to work pretty well. I think it means collaborative in the sense that it compares your ratings for songs with those of people who rate the same songs similarly, not which songs are most popular. It did a great job of finding the psiloveyou song Jack Shite put on the Outside the Inbox disc, which is still making me laugh =p

]]> By: meta-roj blog http://www.bradsucks.net/archives/2003/11/20/irate/comment-page-1/#comment-691 meta-roj blog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bradsucks.net/archives/2003/11/20/irate/#comment-691 <strong>irate rated</strong> this has been sitting around gathering dust for months (september!), and i never got around to writing about it, so i thought i'd take a fresh peek and see what was going on.... way back in the distant past, i... irate rated
this has been sitting around gathering dust for months (september!), and i never got around to writing about it, so i thought i’d take a fresh peek and see what was going on…. way back in the distant past, i…

]]> By: meta-roj blog http://www.bradsucks.net/archives/2003/11/20/irate/comment-page-1/#comment-692 meta-roj blog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bradsucks.net/archives/2003/11/20/irate/#comment-692 <strong>irate rated</strong> this has been sitting around gathering dust for months (september!), and i never got around to writing about it, so i thought i'd take a fresh peek and see what was going on.... way back in the distant past, i... irate rated
this has been sitting around gathering dust for months (september!), and i never got around to writing about it, so i thought i’d take a fresh peek and see what was going on…. way back in the distant past, i…

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