Patent ID: 8676634

Claim:
A method of rating a particular user, the method comprising: determining a first quantity of answers that were submitted by the particular user; determining a second quantity of answers that were (a) submitted by the particular user and (b) designated as selected answers by one or more users other than the particular user; determining, based at least in part on the first quantity and the second quantity, a first probability that an answer submitted by the particular user will be designated as a selected answer by one or more users other than the particular user; determining a second probability that a particular answer submitted by any user in a specified group of two or more users will be designated as a selected answer by one or more users other than a user that submitted the particular answer; determining a rating for the particular user based at least in part on the first probability, the second probability, and the first quantity; and displaying the rating as a measure of credibility of answers submitted by the particular user; wherein, in determining the rating, an influence that the first probability has on the rating relative to an influence that the second probability has on the rating is based at least in part on the first quantity; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.