[Lispweb] Re: Reddit: Let's rewrite a better one in CommonLisp.]

[Marc Battyani]

"Austin Haas" <austin at pettomato.com> wrote:

> I hope the spam wasn't me! I put a link to my own site b/c I couldn't
> think of anything else.

No, your site is perfectly OK. The "spam" was some comments about the
original reddit ;-)

> The most interesting thing to me about reddit is the idea that I am
> training a filter that is going to determine what items are recommended
> for me. I found myself going back to the site just to vote on things,
> hoping it would benefit me later.

The original reddit seems to be simple on that respect. I hope we can try an
find something much better.

> Maybe there could be a way for users to set up a preference for items
> submitted with certain tags. So, for example, in an "options" form I
> might give a +1 to any items about programming, so that they would
> automatically bubble to the top for me. This would only be for me; not
> casting a vote that would affect other users. I might give a -1 to any
> items that have been tagged political. It seems to me like the effects
> of your choices would be more obvious. With reddit, I can't say that
> I've noticed any impact from voting on my recommended page. This might
> also keep newcomers from being turned off because the site has already
> skewed a certain direction. For example, I haven't recommend reddit to
> many people because it seems to only be almost exclusively about lisp
> and programming. My wife might like the service if she could tailor it
> to her interests.

I've already added categories to filter the links.
I will also add filters based on submitters.

More on this later. I still have to work on my real projects ;-)

Marc