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First crowdfunding campaign verifier

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Aleksandr Volodarsky
How are you sure this information is accurate? Do you provide with analytic sources? Can the campaign owner contact you for the clarification?
Andrey Nikishaev
@volodarik We use two-step mechanism. First our algorithms get data and process it making draft report. Then area experts look at this report and verify/update it. In such way we make result more accurate and more faster. Yes, of course owners can contact us, and this would be much better, cause we will get info from the first hands. But still this does not negate the general inspection.
João Antunes
@creotiv @volodarik I'm skeptic of how well an algorithm can ascertain those things. What kind of data does it actually look at? at the moment it only says how many users think that the campaign is not reliable. This is out of how many? With ~59 users with the extension, how do you get this info (I think I know, I just want to make sure)? it must not be from submissions from users with the extension.
João Antunes
@creotiv @volodarik PS: it would be nice to get to know why they think that it's unreliable
Andrey Nikishaev
@joantune @volodarik we use fallback for campaigns that still not processed by us, in such case user will see users voting mechanism that you are talking about. If we process campaign then user will see something like this. Fraud: https://www.indiegogo.com/projec... OK: https://www.kickstarter.com/proj...
Andrey Nikishaev
@joantune @volodarik We thought about comments, but then we will get problem with filtering swearing from it and other things, and it's not that thing that we wanna do right now. So maybe in feature.
Riyadh Al Nur
I went back to 3 projects I funded, and all 3 of them have been successfully funded and have delivered their products. It's kind of weird then that the extension was yellow.
Andrey Nikishaev
@riyadhalnur Yellow saying that it medium risk, and also when campaign not processed by us and have only user votes. Do you think when campaign risks based on user votes it should be other color? and which? Also your question showed to me that we have bug that should be fixed today. Cause some of the campaigns shouldnt have user votes cause thay too old(made before our launch). So thank you for helping us with this))
Riyadh Al Nur
@creotiv Haha glad to help albeit unintentionally. It's not the colour that I'm worried about. Anytime, you let users decide, there will be strong biases in either direction (this is a problem with most things on the internet and I'm not blaming you guys here). I don't know if you take into account if the campaign is by someone who have had other successful campaigns (this is a possible indicator) but there are so many data points and it'd be a nightmare any day making sense of all of them. Regardless, it's great what you guys have been able to do so far. Kudos to you and the team (pun intended).
Andrey Nikishaev
@riyadhalnur Yeah it's hard to get all this information to one decision, but someone should do this, cause number of fraud campaigns increasing with each year, and it's sow distrust in people's hearts that basically killing spirit of crowdfunding. We want that crowdfunding be like in the first years, when it was help hand to interesting project to growth up. About user decision you are right. Do you think better to set just title "Unrated" without any voting?
Riyadh Al Nur
@creotiv Yeah, 'Unrated' works.
Andrey Nikishaev
@riyadhalnur Thanks, we'll think about that)
Jack Smith
this seems like a great idea. Many crowdfunding campaigns can be scammy. This chrome extension checks for some warning signs before you back a campaign.

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