david on Nostr: They’re bounded after you normalize it, sure. That doesn’t change the fact that ...
They’re bounded after you normalize it, sure. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s effectively a popularity contest. It’s the relative scores that matter, and ratios don’t change with normalization.
Suppose A. Einstein is a pleb with 20 or 50 or 100 high quality followers. Enough to prove his profile is probably not a bot. K. Kardashian is an influencer whose follower list is 10k or 100k or 1M and continues to grow by leaps and bounds.
What is the ratio of Kardashian’s PageRank score divided by Einstein’s PageRank score? It’s really high, that’s what it is.
PageRank is a great measure of popularity, which is a valid thing to measure and has its uses, but a poor measure of contextual merit or qualification.
Suppose A. Einstein is a pleb with 20 or 50 or 100 high quality followers. Enough to prove his profile is probably not a bot. K. Kardashian is an influencer whose follower list is 10k or 100k or 1M and continues to grow by leaps and bounds.
What is the ratio of Kardashian’s PageRank score divided by Einstein’s PageRank score? It’s really high, that’s what it is.
PageRank is a great measure of popularity, which is a valid thing to measure and has its uses, but a poor measure of contextual merit or qualification.