If we start experimenting with personalization again, I'll for sure seek your input. Right now at least, I'm biased toward proving/ruling out solutions that are explainable to a five-year-old that provide a relatively raw commons worth inhabiting.

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.

SimpleStacker

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)

Stacker Saloon

saloon

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)