Maybe a good time to revive some old `collaborative filtering` ideas I've had?

https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/discussions/2648

These methods allow you to construct similarity scores between posters and and between items, and individually preference rank items by posters.  

Doesn't solve the problem of people with no data behind them, but their rankings could be some social aggregate using people with more data.

Maybe! If it decays.

With evergreen features, the best posts ever written would still generate reputation through the years. But full glory must belong to the young (just not too young)

optimism

So an example of reputation might be: your zaps/boosts have limited power until your account 

total_earned_zaps - total_earned_downzaps > 100k

And that's better because that's not as subjective.

Stacker Saloon

saloon

I get you. 

So an example of reputation might be: your zaps/boosts have limited power until your account `total_earned_zaps - total_earned_downzaps > 100k`?

And that's better because that's not as subjective.