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I'm considering writing a plugin which, much like an ad-blocker, removes click bait links. There would be various black lists one could use. Any feedback on imp

by n72 10y ago

I'm considering writing a plugin which, much like an ad-blocker, removes click bait links. There would be various black lists one could use. Any feedback on implementation appreciated.

dredmorbius 10y ago
My thinking is leaning toward a few concepts: * Quantified content utilisation. I've been looking at measures of just how much content people can engage with in a day, and it's much smaller than you might think. Stephen Wolfram and Walt Mossberg both hit about 150 - 300 emails. The NY Times comment moderation crew tackle about 800 comments each per day. That latter means 36 seconds per comment, assuming an 8-hour day. At some point, your brain simply becomes full. I suspect a much smaller number of detailed items, and a small number (10-30) medium, and perhaps 100 or so trivial items, is about the sane limit. * A quality metric for content, based on some finite, depletable, periodically renewed resource. "Time" might be one such metric (you've only got 86,400 seconds today, but you'll have more tomorrow!). I have a 5-6 point ranking of content, from '0' (actually makes you stupid for having read it) to 5/6 (defines a field, 6 == extends it). Most news articles fall in the 1-2 range, a good news article perhaps 3, a solid technical paper a 3-4. Key is to not assign everything a top-of-the-scale range. * Assignment of reputations to sources based on those ratings. Both authors and publishers. Increasingly, I'm simply adding clickbait sites to my firewall's blocklist. https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/wgtaltzorrurzat3wf-lwa https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/wgtaltzorrurzat3wf-lwa Iwould very much prrefer to have that capacity on my tablet itself (Google and Samsung say I cannot, fuck 'em, fuck 'em hard), or in some brwoser-like tool (really a next-gen browser). https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/ubkidr7yuc7azg9hdnl7lq https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/ubkidr7yuc7azg9hdnl7lq
cartlonchew 10y ago
Would be interesting to see whether this would cause a retreat to "honest" titles, or an evolution to something completely different.

by n72 10y ago

I'm considering writing a plugin which, much like an ad-blocker, removes click bait links. There would be various black lists one could use. Any feedback on implementation appreciated.

dredmorbius 10y ago

My thinking is leaning toward a few concepts: * Quantified content utilisation. I've been looking at measures of just how much content people can engage with in a day, and it's much smaller than you might think. Stephen Wolfram and Walt Mossberg both hit about 150 - 300 emails. The NY Times comment moderation crew tackle about 800 comments each per day. That latter means 36 seconds per comment, assuming an 8-hour day. At some point, your brain simply becomes full. I suspect a much smaller number of detailed items, and a small number (10-30) medium, and perhaps 100 or so trivial items, is about the sane limit. * A quality metric for content, based on some finite, depletable, periodically renewed resource. "Time" might be one such metric (you've only got 86,400 seconds today, but you'll have more tomorrow!). I have a 5-6 point ranking of content, from '0' (actually makes you stupid for having read it) to 5/6 (defines a field, 6 == extends it). Most news articles fall in the 1-2 range, a good news article perhaps 3, a solid technical paper a 3-4. Key is to not assign everything a top-of-the-scale range. * Assignment of reputations to sources based on those ratings. Both authors and publishers. Increasingly, I'm simply adding clickbait sites to my firewall's blocklist. https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/wgtaltzorrurzat3wf-lwa https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/wgtaltzorrurzat3wf-lwa Iwould very much prrefer to have that capacity on my tablet itself (Google and Samsung say I cannot, fuck 'em, fuck 'em hard), or in some brwoser-like tool (really a next-gen browser). https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/ubkidr7yuc7azg9hdnl7lq https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/ubkidr7yuc7azg9hdnl7lq

cartlonchew 10y ago

Would be interesting to see whether this would cause a retreat to "honest" titles, or an evolution to something completely different.