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OK, but you're moving the goalposts here. You're not just talking about a new search rank algorithm any more, you're talking about building a new social-web eco
by mrec 5y ago
OK, but you're moving the goalposts here. You're not just talking about a new search rank algorithm any more, you're talking about building a new social-web ecosystem to enforce the kind of voting rules needed to make that algorithm work, and somehow getting mass adoption of that new ecosystem.
> I'm amazed at how people can simultaneously think Google results are garbage, and yet, also think any attempt to try to solve the problem is futile and worthless. Cynicism is one hell of a drug.
You're attacking a much broader proposition here than anything I wrote.
- pembrook 5y agoI wouldn't say there's goalposts here or winners and losers, we're all throwing out ideas. Issue pops up, humans suggest fix. New issue pops up, new fix needed. This is how all stuff evolves. I guess I'm more broadly reacting to the sentiment in most comments I'm seeing (which is itself a trope in the dynamics of how upvote-based communities work). Based off all the recent "Google results now suck" posts that went viral, it seems there's broad sentiment that Google is now a cesspool of SEO'd-to-death affiliate marketing. But it also seems there's broad sentiment to shut down and discourage new possibilities before they even get attempted, regardless of potential merit. It seems like an irrational dichotomy.
- wbsss4412 5y agoWhat’s irrational here is that people seem to think that “the market” is the solution to a problem that is created by “the market” (ie seo). Any solution is going to have to think deeper than that.
- SubiculumCode 5y agoThis is all moot. This consequence of MarketRank would be kill forums across the web as they get filled with spam comments from SEO GPT-2 bots.