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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
by 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 agoI'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.