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Simple answer: Pinterest isn't for you Less simple answer: Pinterest has 335 million active users for a reason. It's where people go to collect fantasy boyfrie
by mkr-hn 6y ago
Simple answer: Pinterest isn't for you
Less simple answer: Pinterest has 335 million active users for a reason. It's where people go to collect fantasy boyfriends from TV and movies (not a dig, it's a valid hobby), plan weddings, and generally anything where collecting images from around the web is useful. It's Pinboard for a completely different realm of niches from what you're familiar with.
Pinterest ranks because those results are useful for more people than they annoy.
- arthurcolle 6y ago> (not a dig, it's a valid hobby) How is this valid? Seems like an awfully silly waste of time.
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- drenvuk 6y agoWho appointed you the fun czar?
- arthurcolle 6y agoI usurped the throne.
- UShouldBWorking 6y agoIt's the feminization of the internet. It started with facebook, bleed into reddit and how sites like pinterest are 100% aimed at women. As a man it seems insane and like a waste of time, but such is life.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoWith all the personalization that Google employs, one should assume that it can figure this out or that it allows one to, for instance, in some setting, block Pinterest unless one explicitly ask for it by including the keyword “pinterest” in one's search. Perhaps it should be possible to downvote search results to further create a better personalized effect — continually downvoting Pinterest should have a desired effect.
- esperent 6y agoI've thought about this before, but it would be far to easily manipulated by bad actors - for example, one person says something that triggers the SJW/alt right/gamer/whatever crowd, then a million people downvote her website and her business is destroyed. It wouldn't work without a huge amount of moderation.
- tt433 6y agoIf the voting was just user-specific, that would be fantastic. Because I include a gobbledygook search term to exclude all Pinterest results, Google requires me to perform captchas very frequently, which isn't ideal either.
- esperent 6y agoTry this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoAs I said, it's a matter of personalization and wouldn't be visible to others.
- traceddd 6y agoIt also acts as a pseudo-internet archive. The original images may not be easily found on the internet anymore, but Pinterest still has them scraped with broken clickthrough links. Which can be both useful and maddening.
- tdeck 6y ago> The original images may not be easily found on the internet anymore They're not easily found because they come after 4 pages of Pinterest results in image search.
- traceddd 6y agoI’m talking more about the case in which you can search for an hour and check every result and it’s not anywhere anymore. But yes it’s often just ahead of the real result too.
- unixhero 6y agoPinterest has proven useful many a times when I need to find photos, memes, graphics, evem retro computer catalog images! On google images one can type -pinterest
- diveanon 6y agoMore often than not the image is not in the pinterest result and it is always behind a login gate. I understand the premise of pinterest, and have actually used it as a design board in the past. My point is that as an image search result it is user hostile bullshit that frustrated me enough to stop using Google search as a daily tool. You can talk about how I'm not the target all day, but that doesn't change the fact that it is an inferior user experience enabled by Google.
- yoz-y 6y agoMaybe but the images being in google image search are worthless as one can not get to the actual image. (even by following the link)
- dazc 6y ago'It's where people go to collect fantasy boyfriends from TV..' This explains a lot.