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 == Normalization ==
-If one topic or author is much more prolific than another, then the louder channel will tend to draw more attention.  The problem is often framed as "signal to noise", but that's a more accurate term for filtering spam.  Here we're looking at something more nuanced which we'll call "loudness normalization".
+If one topic or author is much more prolific than another, then the louder channel will tend to draw more attention.  This problem is often framed as "signal to noise", but the phrase doesn't quite describe the same problem and would be more accurately applied to spam-filtering.  Here we're looking at something more nuanced which we'll call "loudness normalization" in which the voices may be equally important, we simply want to give each voice a fair chance to be heard.
 In audio engineering one loud instrument can often drown out another softer sound.  The standard approach to fix this is to normalize the audio, bringing the average loudness of all instruments to the same level.