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It's possible to tell the difference between genuine, authentic sharing, and automation. Rewarding the right behavior will make spam go away.
by mv4 9y ago
It's possible to tell the difference between genuine, authentic sharing, and automation. Rewarding the right behavior will make spam go away.
- Kalium 9y agoYou're right! It's absolutely possible to tell the difference. And when it's known, bad behavior can be punished and good behavior rewarded. What do you think it takes to tell this difference with a high degree of reliability (>4 nines) at scale (>1000/s)? How about in an environment where people are strongly incentivized to find and exploit the weaknesses of your approach? Is it just maybe possible that this might not quite be handwave-it-away trivial? Facebook has had a shocking level of success in cutting down spam with their investments in punishing bad behavior and rewarding good behaviour. Thank you for your thoughts. You're completely correct! It's possible to tell the difference, and rewarding good behavior will drive out bad actors.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoEither you're trusting the crowd to reward good content, which means that people will rapidly optimize for clickbait, or you need some sort of moderation, at which point you're just paying writers.
- usrusr 9y agoExisting social media reward mechanisms are bad enough, they need to be weakened, not strengthened. Imagine you could use hn karma to pay at Wal-Mart - would you expect the quality of discussions here to go up or to go down? I think it would be disastrous.