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This is a problem inherent in any form of social media. Unfortunately, it's not easily fixed. You need to find a way to strike a balance between rewarding conte
by jcitme 15y ago
This is a problem inherent in any form of social media. Unfortunately, it's not easily fixed. You need to find a way to strike a balance between rewarding content creation and punishing spam, and the line in thin.
- windsurfer 15y agoReddit seems to do a great job.
- sin7 15y agoDon't kid yourself. Reddit has gotten to the point where reposts continue to make the front page because even if a lot of people have seen it, not all have. And I have noticed that the same comments will garner karma. The problem with websites like Reddit is that they suffer from the so called black swans. A good post can garner karma in the thousands, but a bad one will only have a negative one or two. So, reposting is a great strategy especially when new content is so hard to come by.
- Locke1689 15y agoThe real problem with Reddit is that the community sucks.
- ChrisArchitect 15y agopeople bring this stuff on themselves by treating fb as a massive 'who I know or am related to' index instead of following who they are interested in. I suppose fb brought some of this on themselves when they went down the twitter-emulation path a few years ago.
- ern 15y agoIt's interesting that you mention the "who am I related to" aspect, because Geni.com is exactly that. After altercations with unhinged second cousins-once-removed and unpleasant uncles, I set privacy to maximum and abandoned Geni (Geni's habit of spamming people who you added also led to a few unpleasant encounters at family reunions). The family tree idea was good, but the social aspect turned out to be unpleasant. Some of the same relatives are friends on Facebook, and it is much more pleasant experience, because they are nominal "friends", but are in a high privacy group, so we don't have much opportunity to interact.