Timeline for Give each site a parallel site for polling, recommendations and subjective-ish stuff
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| Jun 3, 2020 at 13:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:33 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/ with https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Dec 30, 2015 at 3:45 | comment | added | Wildcard | Very good points. Your sentence about having a metric of how close one user's "taste" is to another's reminds me of Netflix movie recommendations, which seem to be surprisingly accurate. They include an "average rating" for the movie, and also their best guess for what your rating will be when you see the movie. But yes, recommendation engines should be custom built according to what is being recommended. I could see a market for a general "recommendations engine" website, community-based like stackexchange...but that's far from the purpose of this site. | |
| Apr 10, 2012 at 1:04 | comment | added | tzenes | @Casebash as we've learned that's only true for very small values of "well." The truth is, it's pretty bad for poll questions where the number of answers exceeds a handful (or maybe 2). The answers are too large, and people don't scroll very far; the highest voted answers tend to received the most vote; constant edits can change an answer from what a voter supports to something else; there are no summaries so you can see percentages. It's actually a pretty poor engine for polling questions... | |
| Apr 7, 2012 at 1:06 | comment | added | Casebash | Interesting point about recommendation engines, but while not ideal, StackExchange still works very well for a lot of those poll questions that are supposedly "low value" | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 10:37 | comment | added | Tobias Kienzler | You make some very good points there. I guess you're right - Jeff&Joel made such a good hammer that it'd easily be able to drive screws... It's just, this hammer seems better than all screwdrivers I've seen so far | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 10:33 | vote | accept | Tobias Kienzler | ||
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| Jan 23, 2011 at 1:12 | comment | added | tzenes | @badp I upvoted him initially, but I feel this deserves a more fully explanation than just: No. | |
| Jan 22, 2011 at 14:52 | comment | added | badp | meta.stackexchange.com/questions/57383/… | |
| Jan 22, 2011 at 11:02 | history | answered | tzenes | CC BY-SA 2.5 |