Ideally this is used as signal to weed out shit reviews. Reviews posted while still downloading go straight to /dev/null, while marking the user having "reviewed" said product and unable to do so again.
I was actually thinking about using these red herrings in other applications, specifically dota2. Users can report others, but abuse this by reporting others for being, what they believe, merely poorer (than themselves) at playing the game. Creates a little signal to noise problem.
It would be an interesting experiment to create these report types ("Bad at the game", for example), but completely disregarding the report against the user. If anything, it could be used against the submitter themselves.
It's an interesting thought - red herrings as a UI concept.
I was actually thinking about using these red herrings in other applications, specifically dota2. Users can report others, but abuse this by reporting others for being, what they believe, merely poorer (than themselves) at playing the game. Creates a little signal to noise problem.
It would be an interesting experiment to create these report types ("Bad at the game", for example), but completely disregarding the report against the user. If anything, it could be used against the submitter themselves.
It's an interesting thought - red herrings as a UI concept.