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Reddit certainly attempted this a few years ago. They had a 'recommended' tab in their main navigation. It worked about as well as their search at the time (ie.
by panacea 16y ago
Reddit certainly attempted this a few years ago. They had a 'recommended' tab in their main navigation. It worked about as well as their search at the time (ie. completely useless).
If I recall, it was based on your activity (this was pre-subreddits) so if you interacted with lots of political stories, for instance, similar political stories would be suggested.
The problem was if you downmodded a bunch of articles involving Ron Paul, your recommended links would be Ron Paul articles.
- troels 16y ago"The problem was if you downmodded a bunch of articles involving Ron Paul, your recommended links would be Ron Paul articles." I could think of an obvious solution for that problem.
- alexandros 16y agocan anyone find references as to why the feature was removed?
- zck 16y agoI don't know, but I imagine the resources they needed to commit to it were pretty hefty.