Hundreds of Hackers Celebrate Open Data Day (thenewstack.io) 21
An anonymous reader writes: Hundreds of different data-hacking events are being held around the globe this weekend to celebrate International Open Data Day. It's the fifth installment of an annual event promoting government data-sharing with a series of loosely joined hackathons, "to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments," according to the event's web site. "Data science is a team sport," says Megan Smith, the former Google executive turned U.S. CTO, who points out over 200,000 new federal data sets have been opened to the public since 2009 on Data.gov. Each hackathon will culminate with a demo or brainstorm proposal that can be shared with the other participating groups around the world.
When will Slashdot open the moderation data? (Score:1)
I am curious to know when Slashdot will provide more transparency and openness regarding the data pertaining to the comment moderation here at Slashdot.
Slashdot should show who moderated each and every comment that was moderated.
Slashdot should show when the moderation took place.
Slashdot should show how each comment was moderated.
Slashdot should make bulk dumps of this data available for download, so we can build moderation abuse detection systems.
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I am curious to know when Slashdot will provide more transparency and openness regarding the data pertaining to the comment moderation here at Slashdot.
The observable universe is some 90-odd billion light years across and 13.7 billion years old, human history spans thousands of years, myriad cultures co-exist across the face of this planet along with the wide diversity of plant and animal life, and that's what you're curious about?
so we can build moderation abuse detection systems.
Abuse such as what? Are gangs of Russian criminals selling mod points on the black market?
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These days it's rare to break 100.
If you visit the URL http://slashdot.org/?page=1 [slashdot.org] you will quickly notice that breaking the 100 isn't rare at all. More than a half of the stories broke the 100 there.
I don't say there is no decline but what you say is wrong.
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There's disadvantages to de-anonymizing moderation, including exposing the system to new forms of abuse. People might be afraid to mod a controversial point, leading to more hivemind mentality. People might decide to punish those who mod the wrong politics or religion. People might decide to punish those who downmod them, using their alt accounts or friends. And for what benefit? Slashdot could (and probably does) run an analysis of mod abuse, slashdotters could design an algorithm to detect mod abuse witho
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Isn't open data (something for nothing), in general, harmful to some group of people or organization, in many cases?
Yes. That is, in fact, usually the objective of government transparency.
It's quite hypocritical to demand other people be open while being very secretive about their own (moderation) systems.
Privacy is necessary for openness. Without anonymity, "speech has consequences" like being sent to Siberia or losing your job or getting rape/death threats. Slashdot has always been a big proponent of privacy. On the other hand, some data like scientific data has no privacy value while having a lot of educational value. It's also generally considered necessary to know what your employees are doing while on the job, as is the case for go
Says Mr Coward... (Score:2)
Oh, the ironing.
I've personally moderated many of your idiotic posts over the past decade!
hackers in, crackers out (Score:2)
Only hundreds? (Score:1)
I would expect at least 2^11 hackers participating.
I mis-read that (Score:2)