{"id":1145,"date":"2005-11-14T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2005\/11\/14\/threadrank\/"},"modified":"2005-11-14T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T17:30:00","slug":"threadrank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2005\/11\/threadrank\/","title":{"rendered":"ThreadRank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the nickname I&#8217;ve given to my\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/2002\/09\/Blog\/2005\/11\/11#deliciousdistobj.thread_patterns...terns\">previous musings<\/a>\non\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kitenet.net\/~joey\/blog\/entry\/thread_patterns-2005-10-27-00-53.html\">thread evaluation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>One thought I had about an Internet-scale ThreadRank, versus what&#8217;s\ndescribed there, is that one can&#8217;t make any\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Closed_World_Assumption\">closed world assumptions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>For example, where the thread patterns page discusses the &#8220;blindingly obvious answer&#8221;,\nit makes a closed world assumption that all responses (answers) are known.  In a Web\/blog-based\n&#8220;thread&#8221;, there may very well be answers that aren&#8217;t known.<\/p>\n\n<p>Moreover, there seems to be an assumption that most participants read most posts,\nwhereas with blogs on the Web, that obviously isn&#8217;t the case.  Therefore, even if a\nthread structure like that of the &#8220;blindingly obvious answer&#8221; was found, it wouldn&#8217;t\nnecessarily indicate that the answer was &#8220;blindingly obvious&#8221;; it could, say, just be\na message which was of interest to a number of people in some smaller community.<\/p>\n\n<p>More thoughts as they occur to me &#8230; 8-)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8230; the nickname I&#8217;ve given to my previous musings on thread evaluation. One thought I had about an Internet-scale ThreadRank, versus what&#8217;s described there, is that one can&#8217;t make any closed world assumptions. For example, where the thread patterns page discusses the &#8220;blindingly obvious answer&#8221;, it makes a closed world assumption that all responses (answers) [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}