Measuring quality of content items presented by a digital magazine server

A method of assessing quality of one or more content items included in a digital magazine, the method comprising:

• receiving a content item;
• determining a characteristic associated with the received content item;
• identifying a set of content items previously presented to one or more users of a digital magazine server based at least in part on the characteristic associated with the received content item;
• determining a number of interactions indicating preference for each content item in the set of content items;
• determining a quality score for each content item in the set of content items, the quality score for a content item in the set of content items determined at least in part on a number of interactions indicating preference for the content item in the set of content items;
• generating a distribution of quality scores for the received content item based on the determined quality scores for the content items in the set of content items;
• receiving an interaction for the received content item;
• determining a quality score for the received content item based at least in part on the interaction;
• and
• generating a modified distribution of quality scores for the received content item by modifying the distribution of quality scores for the received content item to include the quality score of the received content item.

A method of determining quality of one or more content items for presentation by a digital magazine server, the method comprising:

• receiving a content item;
• determining a characteristic associated with the received content item;
• identifying a set of content items previously presented to one or more users of a digital magazine server based at least in part on the characteristic associated with the received content item;
• determining a number of interactions indicating preference for each content item in the set of content items;
• determining a quality score for each content item in the set of content items, the quality score for a content item in the set of content items determined at least in part on a number of interactions indicating preference for the content item in the set of content items;
• generating a distribution of quality scores for the received content item based on the determined quality scores for the content items in the set of content items;
• receiving a query for quality of the received content item before an interaction with the received content item has been received;
• and
• determining the quality of the received content item based at least in part on the distribution of quality scores for the received content item.