Hunch Help

This is the main thing necessary to fix the problems I posed in the "How do I fix tags that someone else screwed up?" topic.

In short: A 'thing' on Hunch is nearly always more than the sum of its recommendations. And the first person who recommends a thing often isn't giving you a good description of what it is, they're just saying "this is really great take a look!"

That works fine for StumbleUpon-style, "oh-hmm-that's-cool" YouTube videos or webpages, but it fails for a book, or a movie, or a video game, or a service.

For example: If I'm the first person to recommend '5th and Lamar', the modern-cut order-by-internet-only shirt-making service, and I just say "These guys are great!", that tells you nothing about what they *do*, and that's the first recommendation forevermore.

Conversely, If I post a great description in the first recommendation, and it's followed by five guys recommending it by just saying "These guys are great!", that will end up burying the initial detailed description.


Conclusion: There needs to be a "description" field for each item, separate from the "recommendation" field. It doesn't need to be particularly long (1,000 to 1,500 characters would suffice), but it needs to be wiki-style editable, rather than the sole domain of the person recommending the item.

I've got about 15-20 Hunch recommendations, in the games/tech/services categories, saved up to put in the system once you've solved this problem.

Posted at: 10:20AM on Sept. 29, 2011. [ permalink ]