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Deconstructing Flickr’s “Interestingness!” « Wesley Hein 2.0
A black-box analysis of flickr's (reportedly) successful algorithm to find interesting new submissions. The assumption is that they use popularity metrics, weighed by a seeded assertion of the professionalism of the commenters, to prevent photoshopped pictures of lolcatz from dominating the rankings.
flickr  photography  community  ranking 
february 2010 by michielbuddingh

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