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After a year or so of invite-only alpha testing, NewsCred launched as a public beta service this morning. The site, founded by Shafqat Islam and Iraj Islam, is trying to create a kind of outsourced reputation system for news websites and blogs, in which users vote on the credibility and accu
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10 months ago
I suppose their answer would be that it'll balance itself out in the end...
But what about controversial topics? Like, abortion or the Iraq war or something. With a service like Wikipedia, the aggregate result of a multitude of contributions is often a compromise, which is ideal. Is a compromise always appropriate for a credibility ranking? I mean, if there's a disagreement about an author's credibility, then sure, a compromise is a great solution, but if there's disagreement about the *beliefs* the author holds, is that something different than credibility?
I mean, can you disagree with someone and still consider them credible? There's a difference between someone being dishonest or having their facts wrong, and someone just coming to a different conclusion than you based on the same credible sources of information.
10 months ago
@Blaise - thats a very good point. I think you can absolutely disagree with someone and still find the reporting to be credible. Perhaps I don't agree with your point of view, but if its presented in a transparent manner, fact-checked and with necessary disclosures, there's no reason to think its a poor quality article. That is an important distinction.
Also, your first point is something we are thinking about at NewsCred - some method of rating the raters!