Comments on: Google Updates Community Edit History with Editor Quality Comments

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:14:57 +0000

Their editor rating system is pretty poor. I’ve only made a couple of edits (location of a couple of buildings I own) and got a “has history of making poor edits” rating.

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 30, 2010 — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:02:37 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:01:54 +0000

@Nifty
I had noticed on the edge of my consciousness that comment about name length but your explicit observation of it helps put it clearly in perspective. Thanks.

By: Nifty Mike

Nifty Mike — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:58:02 +0000

I think the “name is longer than average” note is interesting. I am seeing it on both the empire state building and madison square garden. Long names are more likely to have stuffed keywords.

By: earlpearl

earlpearl — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:58:07 +0000

I am struck by the wierdness and hypocracy of google’s public “ratings of community edits”.

Seriously is there a place where people can publicly evaluate Google’s customer service? Would google please highlight this for the rest of us. Who the H is Google to establish a “rating system” for community edits?

I see too many situations brought up in the Google Groups forums for Maps/Business Owners (now Google Places) that simply never get solved, never get addressed.

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:12:18 +0000

One good way to find community edits is to use the * search in Maps. This * search in NYC brings up a number of popular, non claimed listings that have mostly "honest" edits. Interestingly there does appear to be Google human moderation of these high profile places pages.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:17:34 +0000

Hi Mike,

A few things seem very similar, such as people who haven’t made many edits yet probably don’t get as high a score as people who have made a good number more – that concept of a base of legitimacy that seems to be a strong part of the “rate the raters” approach in action, and seems to apply to editors as well.

A “history of entering poor data” or profanity might similarly undermine such a base of legitimacy, and possibly make it less likely that edits from those editors would be displayed.

I’d definitely like to look at more edit histories to see what other signals they might be considering and identifying.

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:54:50 +0000

@Bill

Given that the context of community edits is slightly different than reviews, I wonder how the rating the rater function is repurposed from reviews to community edits.