TopShelf TG Fiction in the BigCloset!
The stories listed under the "More Like This" section, how are they chosen? (Drove my parents nuts always asking for explanations!) I've seen a couple that the recommended stories were not anywhere close to the story chapter they were appended to.
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Search algorithm
The "similarity" is based on categories, titles and content. We can weight those a bit differently but we really don't have fine control of the whole thing.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I thought author was involved as well
but apparently I just tend to use the same categories in most of my stories :)
Bru
For Example
The display of this post at this particular instance displayed the following five posts as "more like this":
The top two contained all three words of the subject: more, like, and this. The bottom three contained the words more and like.
It's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to devise a computer algorithm to match humans' views on what's similar and what's not. More often than not, the searches fail miserably. At one point, a display of one of my short stories produced the first five postings of my one very long story -- rather unhelpful, to say the least. (One of those postings would suffice, along with other different posts.)
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)