Is the great challenge separating the wheat from the chaff?
That’s possibly why sites such as Digg, Mename or others operate, where there are people who choose what is published. However, for me the great challenge is one of education: learning to read on the Internet, being sceptical and comparing ourselves. Not waiting for someone to give it to us already packaged, so that we believe everything. At Digg, the site that inspired you to create Mename, the profile of a post is directly proportional to the number of votes it gets. For Mename, however, you took the trouble to programme an algorithm that gives more value to votes of users with greater “karma”, in other words, people who have been more accurate when posting or voting. How do you feel that this has improved selection? It’s not true that Digg is purely vote-based. They use more complex algorithms, but what happens is that they don’t try and explain it away by saying that this prevents system abuse. At Mename, we also use other algorithms whose most representative value is the karma, an
