myLot's new earning algorithm
@FightingFreedom (281)
Singapore
December 1, 2006 2:55am CST
Just a quick question, how does myLot qualify as a quality contribution and for this huge community and still increasing, how does myLot filter those quality response and low-quality ones?
4 responses
@platypus (334)
• Italy
1 Dec 06
I would really like to know that. Of course 1-word-answers and 3-word-questions are considered low quality, but ther must be something else. I don't think there are humans checking every single message or reply, I think there is a software that does it and Mylot staff just take some samples and checks how this softare works. Otherwise, the system will soon collapse.
A quality question...maybe is a question with lots of different answers. if you ask "X or Y?" you receive as answers just "Y" , "X", "Dunno", then the question is low quality.
A quanlity answer...maybe is an answer that cover a lot of aspects of that question (judged, for instance, by analysing which words you used).
But all these are just my hypothesis!
@FightingFreedom (281)
• Singapore
3 Dec 06
i do agree with you that there won't be a human checking the answers... just imagine, with 42,069 population in myLot community (as of when i type this), each person do at least 10 discussions? that's a big amount of discussions to check.
@FightingFreedom (281)
• Singapore
1 Dec 06
i am not exactly sure if they would reveal how they do the filtering because there will be people trying to get by the filter that way.
nevertheless, how do we go about asking mylot through alert?
@FightingFreedom (281)
• Singapore
1 Dec 06
dun mean to be rude, but guess you have seen the comment earlier and the new alert from myLot that "i don't know" comments are considered as low-quality comments.
@SoulEraser (496)
• Singapore
1 Dec 06
do not ever post one word answers like yes/no/dunno. other than that, do not spam, make senseless comments and create ridiculously stupid threads.
@FightingFreedom (281)
• Singapore
1 Dec 06
first of all, thanks for replying.
where do you get these information? it's stated in the myLot alert that we could look at the guidelines for the discussions. any idea where can we find the guidelines?
Thanks once again.
