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This will escalate the impact of trolls on news articles. Currently, a well-received article might have hundreds or thousands of Likes and Loves, next to a 3-5
by jonbronson 7y ago
This will escalate the impact of trolls on news articles. Currently, a well-received article might have hundreds or thousands of Likes and Loves, next to a 3-5 Laughs from those wishing to troll/deride the content. At least now you can click and see what the distribution is and verify yes, its just a few trolls. With this change, a single troll would surface a laugh which is seemingly on par with the other reactions. It's a poor metric, but this makes it worse.
- r00fus 7y agoTroll farms rejoice at this news for sure.
- dougb5 7y agoWhat do you think about getting rid of the "laugh" reaction? I feel like that could make Facebook less toxic in one stroke, since it is so often used to troll and deride, as you observe. There are non-troll uses of the laugh reaction, to be sure, but the like/love reactions can absorb these.