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There might be some value in opening these algorithms up but, also, the moment you reveal how they work you will immediately start to see them gamified. Aspects
by interblag 4y ago
There might be some value in opening these algorithms up but, also, the moment you reveal how they work you will immediately start to see them gamified. Aspects of content recommendation/moderation will always be adversarial, and there are many good arguments in favour of some opacity in these types of systems.
- photochemsyn 4y agoI feel they're already being gamified, but by people with an inside line to Twitter, i.e. shareholders and advertisers. If you mean something like search engine optimization on Google by random people wanting to get their content on the front page, I believe there are ways to prevent or minimize that. Of course Google has just gone and pumped advertiser content to the top of search rankings...
- HWR_14 4y ago> search engine optimization on Google ... there are ways to prevent or minimize that If that was true, I'd imagine you could get quite a nice payday from Google.
- moduspol 4y agoHN's algorithm is open source, right? That's not to say it's never been gamed, but it doesn't seem notably more "gamed" than Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
- x86_64Ubuntu 4y agoGamifying HN doesn't provide anywhere near the return that gamifying Twitter would.
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