One choice, three results#

Preferences shows two items side by side and asks one question: which do you prefer? Each answer ranks the items and the generators that produced them with Bradley-Terry, describes the voter's taste, and, for text, becomes a contrastive pair that ster can train on.

Voting needs no account. The web app at app.preferences.wisent.com and the preferences command line are the same product: the same arenas, the same rankings, the same profile.

Public arenas anyone can vote in, anonymously, with a cookie and no sign-in.
Rankings per category, over items and over the generators that produced them, computed from the choices as they arrive.
A taste profile per voter and category: the attributes your choices lean towards, and one deterministic sentence that says what they add up to.
ster contrastive-pair export from text categories, for your own choices with an account, or for any voter with the operator bearer.
Private arenas bound to a Wisent organization: only members of that organization see them or the items inside them.
An operator path for generator runs: submit a run manifest, let people vote, rank the submission, and feed the winner back into the generator that made it.

Vocabulary#

One word per concept, used the same way in the API, the command line and the web app.

A voter is whoever answers pairs, anonymous or signed in. An operator is whoever holds the operator bearer, read by the vault role PREFERENCES_TOKEN_ROLE names: the credential behind creating arenas and categories, submitting runs, ranking submissions, hiding items and exporting another voter's pairs.

The eight words the product is made of
Term	Meaning
`item`	One thing to look at: an SVG, a PNG, a line of text or a fragment of HTML, stored with the generator and candidate id that produced it.
`category`	A set of items of one kind (image, text or html) inside an arena. Ranking and profiling both happen per category.
`generator`	What made an item: wisent-logo-generator, a marketing asset generator, a model, a person. The thing a ranking of generators is about.
`pair`	Two items of one category, served to one voter at one moment.
`choice`	What the voter did with a pair: left, right, tie or skip, and how many milliseconds it took.
`arena`	A named collection of categories. Public, or private to one Wisent organization.
`ranking`	The Bradley-Terry order of a category, over items or over generators, with a 95% interval per subject.
`profile`	One voter's leans in one category, and the sentence that describes them.

What is free and what is paid#

Voting in public arenas and every public ranking are free and need no account. Paid: a private arena bound to your Wisent organization, where the items, the pairs and the rankings are visible only to its members, and the personal model path, where your profile becomes a steering vector for a model that shares your taste.