One could add a star almost anywhere, but would it represent what you intend it to represent or ask for it to represent? in my experience people use such affordances as they see fit, not as instructed unless they are policed. that said, i suspect stars on conference submissions would end up being popularity contests, which mind you isn't to far from our usual single or double blind peer review, but still wouldn't be effective. similarly with any recommender system for research would end up mostly demonstrating what the most popular posters would post which is likely to be the most popular of the dominant paradigm. that tendency is one that should probably be resisted in academia. we do have a strong tradition in aoir of trying new technologies and we've tried many, and mostly... as i've indicated other than the maintenance of said systems, people don't use them. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Murray Turoff <murray.turoff@gmail.com> wrote:
Jeremy, we actually found this to be a problem when we started legitech in the 70's because everyone wanted to ask for answers to questions but very few responded. Then we put in a membership list showing who had supplied how many answers and who had asked how many questions. This changed the behavior to almost everyone putting in answers when they good. In some very active problem solving networking on the web, among professionals in various software areas they use voting on how a good a solution is by the people seeking answers and the degree of expertise among the problem solvers becomes quite evident. so it is really a question of how you design the feedback to encourage active participation. One could add star voting to this conference to vote on the value of contributions!
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Jeremy hunsinger <jeremy@tmttlt.com> wrote:
we have in the past had all of those tools. want to why we don't use them much?... because you don't use them. you use the list, and that is about all you use. --
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