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I wonder if this is recreating groups without labeling them as such. To a newcomer, such a big group looks like it is composed of many smaller groups. The newco
by phicoh 5y ago
I wonder if this is recreating groups without labeling them as such. To a newcomer, such a big group looks like it is composed of many smaller groups. The newcomer then first has to reduce the signal of uninteresting group before finding relevant content (or not and wasting quite a bit of time).
- lonk11 5y agoRecreating groups is a hard reset on connections between users. That is, if you migrate from the old group to a new one, you effectively disconnect from all members of the old group and connect to the new. With LinkLonk you gradually update your connections as you upvoted/downvote content. In a regular group your connection to all other members is a boolean 0 (you are not a member of the group) or 1 (you are a member of the group). On LinkLonk your connection is a float - 0.01 or 0.5 or 3.7 - depending on how useful you found their previous contributions. As for taking the time to onboard, I agree, this is a problem for LinkLonk - the initial set of recommendations is purely popularity based and there is no topic focus to it. But try upvoting a single item and you will get connected to the other users that upvoted that item. Refresh the recommendations and you will see more content from those users, which should increase the signal-to-noise ratio. Or try submitting a new link and you will get connected to the RSS feed that posted that link.