Oh nice. I had an idea to make this website years ago but never did.
Actually I had the idea it would match people up who had similar views.
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#102Unironically, I want this, but for restaurants/stores/etc, essentially a replacement for Google Maps' helpful but deeply flawed one-to-five-star (but actually 4.0-4.9-star) rating system.
At least the 5 star scale has become exceedingly clear that anything below 4.0 is hot trash.
Sometimes even cold trash!
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#103Unironically, I want this, but for restaurants/stores/etc, essentially a replacement for Google Maps' helpful but deeply flawed one-to-five-star (but actually 4.0-4.9-star) rating system.
You want restaurants to be rated by random people who have never been to them?
Sorry no lol, not the randomness aspect. What I mean is that Google has a very good guess of which restaurants I've been to, so rather than asking me to rate it 1-5 stars, I want it to ask "Is it better or worse than "? and then building ratings based on those results, with the option of me answering " I have not been there".
It just seems like better system than the current one, in which the Papa John's near my undergrad college and the best Italian place in my neighborhood are both rated 4.5 stars.
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#104Idea would be great for product recommendations, as long as the spam issue can be solved. Most people can make a reliable comparison between two products but maybe not among many.
Considering this thing ranks Adolph Hitler as the best "thing" currently, above other things such as sexual intercourse, the entire Earth, and Oxygen, I don't think I would trust any product recommendation such a system would spit out.
Well that's because of spam. If you ask people to genuinely make a bunch of 1v1 comparisons from first hand experience, vs say, blogspam of top 10 ____ products lists, or recommendations of people who have only tried 1 option...
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#105Leaderboard has sandwich, milk and sexual intercourse. Looks about right.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So I'm not sure Hitler ranking highly is in bad faith. I think they may be ranking Hitler the artist or Hitler the leader surely. It can't possibly be the more simple explanation of the internet being full of trolls who think anonymous graffiti is funny. Why is it only on HN that this sort of contortion happens?
ELO in most contexts is a sort of "strength" rating so I decided when doing a few dozen that I would choose whichever had more impact on history. Or to put it another way, I was choosing the thing that would cause the most differences if it didn't exist. In my case I got Hitler vs Electricity so the latter is the obvious choice but anyone else using the same criteria as me has perfectly good reason to choose Hitler o…
Maybe the site needs a quick explainer of what Elo ranking is. Perhaps people should have to pass a multiple choice question about it before they can start ranking.
Conflating Elo ranking with goodness is shockingly dimwitted - I'd think it much below Hacker News commentators, but apparently that's not the case. Of course Hitler would have a high Elo ranking; he's objectively one of the most powerful and influential humans of all time.