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That's the basic problem. All the motivation and encourgement is towards extreme, attention grabbing content.
by neffy 6y ago
That's the basic problem. All the motivation and encourgement is towards extreme, attention grabbing content.
- Rebbitor 6y agoI am sorry that you are unaware of life before the internet. People have been trolling each other before the internet. A well known troll was sending packages that exploded on people. In fact I think we have gotten a lot more civil lately. Exploding packages sounds a lot worse and uncivil than your comment internet trolling and uncivility.
- taurath 6y agoThats a fairly extreme statement - you're saying that "because extreme events also used to take place, the internet is not involved, and in fact is a help". So to you, the internet is a completely neutral platform with no side effects? I do not think you will find many people on the planet that will agree with you.
- taurath 6y agoTo me it seems like an extremely solvable problem. Facebook could do an A/B test right now of removing all likes and see what happens. You'll get an answer as to some of the effects in a week. The question is what metrics you decide on determines "moderate" as opposed to "extreme". To anyone at facebook - please dissuade me if I'm being naive here - I'm always looking to update my mental model of this.
- neffy 6y agoI suspect the only naivety is with respect to what that would do to facebook's revenue.