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This is something that Google+ needs to deal with immediately. It's also a problem that Twitter faces. Certain folks tend to dominate or flood my Twitter or Go
by bvi 15y ago
This is something that Google+ needs to deal with immediately. It's also a problem that Twitter faces.
Certain folks tend to dominate or flood my Twitter or Google+ stream - but muting/blocking/unfollowing them is not really an option.
From a usability point of view, it would be great to have a slider or a similar control that will allow me to tweak how often Person X's posts are displayed in my stream. Everyone in a Circle is not equally important.
- justincormack 15y agoWhy isnt unfollowing an option? Unlike the author of the article I do find twitter a good conversational medium. I dont follow firehose people as it is not conversational. I havent quite worked out how/if i will use plus long term.
- bvi 15y agoUnfollowing isn't an option because I'd still like to get the occasional post from Person X - just not as frequently as I'd like to see posts from Person Y. I'm not talking about "firehose people" - my point is, it would be great if I could see (posts from Y) > (posts from X) > (posts from Scoble), even if they're all in the same Circle. Currently, everyone inside a Circle is given the same weight.
- akavi 15y agoI wonder if a solution similar to what Reddit does to subreddits might make sense. The likelihood of a link showing up on your front page is not just a function of votes, but also how many votes the average story from that subreddit gets (ie, In a popular subreddit? More votes needed to frontpage it. In r/highlySpecificHobby? Fewer votes needed) Similarly, G+ could normalize how often it pushes up posts as a function of how much activity the average post from that person receives.