[Air-L] the next step

[Jeremy hunsinger]

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 at 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 at 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.
>> --
>
> Distinguished Professor Emeritus
> Information Systems, NJIT
> homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff
>
>



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