[mb-users] Brainztorming: rank edits, not users

[Jim DeLaHunt]

Philip:

Brainstorming!  I like it!


Philip Jägenstedt-3 wrote:
> 
> Objective: find those edits most in need of checking (separate noise
> and signal in the edit queue)
> 
> I'm thinking that instead of ranking users and changing the voting
> periods, we could rank each edit individually based on a numer of
> factors....
> 

I think this would be a good way of focussing attention on those edits that
would most benefit from the attention.  And I agree, once we set up the
mechanism, we could add and remove ranking factors to tweak its behaviour.

This presumes a situation where we have a scarcity of voter attention and
edits are not getting votes. Instead of working to do better in that
situation, another alternative is to work to change the situation. That is,
spend equivalent effort to get more voter attention, or remove barriers. 
Anyone have ideas for that?  Would that be a more productive direction?

Note also that there are other goals than finding edits most in need of
checking.  I would be pleased if MB gave faster gratification to
good-quality contributions.  That's not quite the same thing.

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