Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb(_at_)guppylake(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote:
Twitter seems to think that users are smart enough to distinguish
between "unwanted" and "spam". They give you a button for
each. It's an important distinction that most people can make.
Twitter isn't always right, and my intuition differs from yours on
this one. Fortunately it's something that could be resolved
empirically. I'd like to see such a study, because it wouldn't take
very many users who *can't* properly make that distinction to render
the two-button solution counterproductive. I'd rather have one bit
of meaningful data than two bits of muddled data. -- Nathaniel
One button is the "OR" of the two buttons, so there's no less
information available. Given enough data, it should be easy to get
pretty accurate statistics on how reliable _each_ user is, and the
unreliable ones can be mapped into the one-button treatment.
Seth
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