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The problems with rating systems for content is they can often lead to brigading to suppress/promote content. At which point, you're on an infinite whack-a-mole
by alpha_squared 8y ago
The problems with rating systems for content is they can often lead to brigading to suppress/promote content. At which point, you're on an infinite whack-a-mole marathon to curb that sort of behavior.
- mortivore 8y agoThat's a good point, but what about a rating system that isn't directly user generated? Imagine that information on the number of times an article/content is viewed, and the length of time that content is viewed was used to generate a rating for that piece of content. There could probably be other indirect factors for "content weight" that could go into the rating.
- reificator 8y agoYou've invented the "YouTube Algorithm". (because it's one monolithic thing, right?) No one has ever taken issue with the YouTube Algorithm before.
- PavlovsCat 8y agoI would prefer manual curation. That doesn't scale, I know. But for people to learn to do it efficiently together, they need to learn to do it individually first. And only, after we scaled it with humans, we could begin to think how to automate anything.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoOne notable result is that content gets padded to extract the longest possible attention, so now that 10s fix for an issue takes 2 minutes to find. Not a problem platforms care about, probably helps them, sucks for users though -- it becomes 'how bad can we make things and still have people use our service'.