{"id":2330,"date":"2003-03-14T13:01:42","date_gmt":"2003-03-14T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=358"},"modified":"2010-05-09T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T13:00:07","slug":"anti-links-vote-links-value-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/14\/anti-links-vote-links-value-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-links, vote-links, value-links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Marks at Epeus’ Epigone<\/a> is posting about a very important subject: anti-links<\/a> or vote-links<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I propose that we add an optional attribute to the (link) tag in HTML. Its name is ‘vote’. Its value can be “+” “0” or “-“, representing agreement, abstention or indifference, and disagreement respectively.<\/p>\n

An untagged link is deemed to have value “+”.<\/p>\n

Additional human-readable commentary can be added using the existing ‘title’ attribute, which most browsers show as a rollover.<\/p>\n

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The motivation is, of course:<\/p>\n

how about some extensions to the ‘a href’ tag to say “I’m linking to this, but I disagree with it” and maybe “I’m linking to this but don’t count the link as a vote”. Google and other link spiders could note these distinctions, and distinguish between popularity, notoriety and ubiquity.<\/p>\n

There is also a lot more scope for deriving a personalised search this way – excluding what Cory calls ‘left-handed whuffie’ and returning search results from places you are likely to agree or disagree with, as well as showing more nuanced rankings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I’m all for this. In the past I’ve either deliberately avoided linking to some sites I disagree with, or linked to them with strong misgivings.<\/p>\n

I also agree that a numerical value (vote=”3.14159″) will not be as efficient, as there’ll be disagreement over the maximum and minimum values – should they go from -1 to +1, -10 to +10, -100 or +100, or what? And people are sure to post values beyond the limits, possibly causing some breakage. On the other hand, at least one degree of nuancing might be good to have – so I’d propose “++”, “+”, “0”, “-” and “–“. And missing or invalid values would be equivalent to “+”.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Joi Ito<\/a> has picked up the subject; read the comments<\/a> on his site, very interesting. Some people there are advocating FOAF or RDF solutions, which I think are way too complex for simple page-to-page links.<\/p>\n

Let’s hope this will be implemented in some form…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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