I use the "favorite story" lists of people who seem to have similar tastes in stories as me.
I have automated this method, but my current weighing scheme isn't very good. In case anyone can suggest a better one, below is my setup.
Each user has a rank that describes how similar their taste is to mine. Each story has a rank that describes how much I like it. We start with user ranks being all 0, and with story ranks reflecting my preferences. First we set each user's rank to be the average of the ranks of the stories he likes ('average' can be replaced by any other function of the number of... (read more)
I have automated this method, but my current weighing scheme isn't very good. In case anyone can suggest a better one, below is my setup.
Each user has a rank that describes how similar their taste is to mine. Each story has a rank that describes how much I like it. We start with user ranks being all 0, and with story ranks reflecting my preferences. First we set each user's rank to be the average of the ranks of the stories he likes ('average' can be replaced by any other function of the number of... (read more)