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Well what cwkoss describes would work well for you too: you would choose your experts of choice and have them as trusted users. I would too expect some users to

by Iv 7y ago

Well what cwkoss describes would work well for you too: you would choose your experts of choice and have them as trusted users. I would too expect some users to become trust nexuses like that.

cwkoss 7y ago
Yep! Ideally there would be some getTrustedPeers endpoint that would allow you to transitively discover interesting users 2 hops away. Add them and they become 1-hop and could get their trust list, rinse and repeat to traverse the trust network. Because users are 'liable' for content they rebroadcast (if you repeatedly propogate downvoted content, your trust score will fall), there is a strong incentive to "moderate" the content you promote. This allows not only the OP to gain karma/trust from a post, but also adjacent peers can earn trust by reliably upcoming content that is later upvoted downstream. Hopefully this would encourage "tastemaker" users who don't create new stuff, but carefully curate what they rebroadcast. Trusting the right users allows you to rebroadcast their trusted content automatically, if you chose to configure your trust algo that way.
basch 7y ago
I kind of disagree. Thats why rss failed. It requires the user to set it up before it works. And I may never leave my comfort zone, if setting up what to follow is my choice. I dont know what I dont know. If I dont know the experts to follow, guiding me to choose experts seems silly. Just do it for me. Let the experts pick the other experts. There is a huge benefit to everybody in a community seeing the same page. Whether its hckrnews, drudge report, front page of wsj, if everybody sees the same page, there is a social water cooler effect of "hey did you see" "yeah." I just think with the "infinitely customized to you" we are trapping people in a constant cycle of always consuming more of the same, while also fragmenting our sense of community and identity. We get stuck in the filter bubbles we choose. These two articles combined together make me feel trapped. https://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5730762/buzzfeeds-founder-used-to-write-marxist-theory-and-it-explains https://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5730762/buzzfeeds-founder-used... https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7-30a0-9a0a-3ff76e8bfe58 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7...

by Iv 7y ago

Well what cwkoss describes would work well for you too: you would choose your experts of choice and have them as trusted users. I would too expect some users to become trust nexuses like that.

cwkoss 7y ago

Yep! Ideally there would be some getTrustedPeers endpoint that would allow you to transitively discover interesting users 2 hops away. Add them and they become 1-hop and could get their trust list, rinse and repeat to traverse the trust network. Because users are 'liable' for content they rebroadcast (if you repeatedly propogate downvoted content, your trust score will fall), there is a strong incentive to "moderate" the content you promote. This allows not only the OP to gain karma/trust from a post, but also adjacent peers can earn trust by reliably upcoming content that is later upvoted downstream. Hopefully this would encourage "tastemaker" users who don't create new stuff, but carefully curate what they rebroadcast. Trusting the right users allows you to rebroadcast their trusted content automatically, if you chose to configure your trust algo that way.

basch 7y ago

I kind of disagree. Thats why rss failed. It requires the user to set it up before it works. And I may never leave my comfort zone, if setting up what to follow is my choice. I dont know what I dont know. If I dont know the experts to follow, guiding me to choose experts seems silly. Just do it for me. Let the experts pick the other experts. There is a huge benefit to everybody in a community seeing the same page. Whether its hckrnews, drudge report, front page of wsj, if everybody sees the same page, there is a social water cooler effect of "hey did you see" "yeah." I just think with the "infinitely customized to you" we are trapping people in a constant cycle of always consuming more of the same, while also fragmenting our sense of community and identity. We get stuck in the filter bubbles we choose. These two articles combined together make me feel trapped. https://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5730762/buzzfeeds-founder-used-to-write-marxist-theory-and-it-explains https://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5730762/buzzfeeds-founder-used... https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7-30a0-9a0a-3ff76e8bfe58 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7...