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I fear this this dynamics will promote highly controversial topics. Even here in HN, a topic with many comments and few upvotes have a higher temperature, more

I fear this this dynamics will promote highly controversial topics. Even here in HN, a topic with many comments and few upvotes have a higher temperature, more reported comments. It sounds like you are selecting for exactly that. That said, it's always hard to know until you have a large user base.

pessimizer 5y ago
Trolls are graded on the inverse of the ratio of characters they type vs. characters typed back at them. If you can get people to type novels back at your poorly spelled, no caps, no punctuation incomplete sentence, you win.
- actually_a_dog 5y ago
  That is hilarious. I also suspect that highly trolled topics might have a higher number of replies per view overall.
- strogonoff 5y ago
  Trolls will continue winning in ad-supported social media. A troll is fantastic at engaging large numbers of eyeballs. A low-quality trollish sentence is quick to write; drop a few of them here and there and you got a few lurkers graduate to what the platform can now claim as “active users”. It’s a symbiotic relationship. (In this regard, as far as I’m concerned, for a novel type of social networking platform it’s much more important to be paid, rather than play around with likes and algorithms. Long-term business model will prevail—if your paying users are the advertisers, you’ll align with them sooner or later.)
  - holler 5y ago
    > A low-quality trollish sentence is quick to write; drop a few of them here and there and you got a few lurkers graduate to what the platform can now claim as “active users”. It’s a symbiotic relationship. Agree, trolls will always try to game the system. I like the idea of optimizing for quality users vs quality content. You can always add optional controls for conversations as well e.g. account age restriction.
    - strogonoff 5y ago
      I'm not really blaming trolls for gaming the system. Rather, I'm saying that any ad-based platform will one way or another evolve to have such an UI that encourages trolls, because they help its bottom line.

pessimizer 5y ago

Trolls are graded on the inverse of the ratio of characters they type vs. characters typed back at them. If you can get people to type novels back at your poorly spelled, no caps, no punctuation incomplete sentence, you win.

actually_a_dog 5y ago
That is hilarious. I also suspect that highly trolled topics might have a higher number of replies per view overall.
strogonoff 5y ago
Trolls will continue winning in ad-supported social media. A troll is fantastic at engaging large numbers of eyeballs. A low-quality trollish sentence is quick to write; drop a few of them here and there and you got a few lurkers graduate to what the platform can now claim as “active users”. It’s a symbiotic relationship. (In this regard, as far as I’m concerned, for a novel type of social networking platform it’s much more important to be paid, rather than play around with likes and algorithms. Long-term business model will prevail—if your paying users are the advertisers, you’ll align with them sooner or later.)
- holler 5y ago
  > A low-quality trollish sentence is quick to write; drop a few of them here and there and you got a few lurkers graduate to what the platform can now claim as “active users”. It’s a symbiotic relationship. Agree, trolls will always try to game the system. I like the idea of optimizing for quality users vs quality content. You can always add optional controls for conversations as well e.g. account age restriction.
  - strogonoff 5y ago
    I'm not really blaming trolls for gaming the system. Rather, I'm saying that any ad-based platform will one way or another evolve to have such an UI that encourages trolls, because they help its bottom line.