[mb-devel] Collaborative Filtering: Artist - Artist Relationships

[Robert Kaye]

On Mar 23, 2007, at 4:29 AM, Ollie Charles wrote:
> The tagging system would introduce unneccessary complexity,

I disagree -- its pretty straghforward and good chunk of it is  
already implemented.

> and you'd
> still have to go around tagging artists in the first place for the
> system to work. Also, you'd need to ensure the tags are valid and
> comply with some guidelines, so then you'd have to moderate the
> tagging as well.

Au contraire! Tags are subjective and subjective data cannot be  
moderated. And tags benefit from a total lack of guidelines -- after  
a while you get to see real trends from users emerge over time.

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