This is an old problem. What is new is how fast things spread. Delaying when the upvotes/retweet/view counts become visible, will reduce the speed with which i

This is an old problem. What is new is how fast things spread. Delaying when the upvotes/retweet/view counts become visible, will reduce the speed with which info spreads, and there will be less chaos. Speed is highly overrated and it's value falsely tied to "engagement". Easy to run this experiment on HN - only show users their karma a week after their post gets published post quality will increase and engagement will drop. Which is an ideal outcome in a world where fiction trumps fact by a huge and exponentially increasing margin.