Fwd: [announce, cfp] Experiment: bitt significance and questions

[Larry Sanger]

Hello Infobitt-talk listees,

I've given this treatment to the top six bitts, these ones. Click on the comments sections to read my "Significance" assessment and my "Questions":

What do you think? Interesting? Boring? Provocative? Annoying?

The bottom line is: will it make you more interested in (a) discussion, (b) adding facts, (c) re-ranking?

I'm also worried that some people might find themselves personally criticized when of course my focus is on the news stories as started by professional journalists outside of our community.

--Larry

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From: Larry Sanger <la...@infobitt.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 10:54 AM
Subject: [announce, cfp] Experiment: bitt significance and questions
To: Infobitt Daily Update <infobitt-d...@googlegroups.com>

On the Top Stories, I decided to do an experiment:

If you click through to the comments on the Top Stories, you will start seeing two comments from me. (1) A statement as to the significance of this particular news story, or my guess as to why it's important (it's only a guess; usually, reliably assessing significance requires a lot of background knowledge) (2) A number of questions that a more fleshed-out bitt would answer (in my opinion).

I've done this with the #1 story so far but will at least cover the current top five. That's my goal.

The experimental hypothesis tested is: pointing out these meta-issues will spark discussion, motivate contributors to re-rank bitts upon reflection, and add needed facts. The ultimate goal is to discover new community habits we can adopt that will improve news quality and make the community even more fun.

--Larry

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Larry Sanger

Founder/CEO, Infobitt.com

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Larry Sanger

Founder/CEO, Infobitt.com