Usability and resource efficiency using comment relevance

Abstract

Techniques for enhancing usability and electronic resource efficiency using comment relevance are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a comment relevance system receives member feature data, including professional identity data such as professional experience or professional skill, and at least one of comment feature data and commenter feature data for comments for post on a social networking service, generates a score for each comment based on the member feature data and the comment or commenter feature data, ranks the comments based on the scores, and causes one or more of the comments to be displayed in a particular position based on the ranking. In some embodiments, the member feature data comprises professional identity data of a member of the social networking service, the comment feature data indicates at least one attribute of the comment, and the commenter feature data indicates at least one attribute of the commenter of the comment.