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This actually harbors a good point. The quality stays high if the interactions users receive are strongly weighed towards the high-quality content/people.
by mach1ne 4y ago
This actually harbors a good point. The quality stays high if the interactions users receive are strongly weighed towards the high-quality content/people.
- Simon_O_Rourke 4y agoVery true, but that mechanism in itself is extremely difficult to scale.
- cillian64 4y agoBut with traditional social media structures, as the user group grows, the quality of voting/interaction suffers - you get more people willing to like/upvote memes, clickbait, and controversy. Maybe what we need is more media/discussion curated by people who care about quality instead of curation by the masses
- ekanes 4y agoI think HN fits this to an extent by weighting voting power according to account age and other factors, which would dramatically slow the speed with which an explosion of new users would change what is seen on the homepage. User comment quality remains a hard problem to solve though.
- blooalien 4y agoI find myself continually amazed at how HN continues to be one of the more overall generally "sane" discussion forums in existence. Still by far just about my favorite source of interesting links and equally interesting discussions about those links. "Kudos", "props", and "mad respect" at all those folks who help it stay that way.