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Negative feedback and dislike features can reduce engagement or drive people away, so social media platforms are incentivized to avoid such mechanisms.
by anonymousab 6y ago
Negative feedback and dislike features can reduce engagement or drive people away, so social media platforms are incentivized to avoid such mechanisms.
- hnick 6y agoAnd I think they're just chasing local maxima. Over the long term, they devolve and people leave.
- sbarre 6y agoThis is a very important observation.. It parallels the real-world chase of short-term profits in business, and short-term "points" in politics. If the major platforms took a longer view of their communities, and asked themselves how do you build the _best_ community, not the _biggest_ community, we might all be better off.. But then their stockholders wouldn't be better off, so it hasn't happened. That said, now with businesses and advertisers (the actual customers of social networks - because the users sure aren't) starting to pull ad dollars, we may see some of this change? One can hope..
- pjc50 6y agoYes, but that is what needs to happen: reduction of negative engagement.
- sideshowb 6y agoYes but if you're doing it by driving people away you want to get rid of trolls not those engaging in good faith.