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Thanks for the feedback. I think we've accounted for this with the stream and how likes/dislikes work. By taking into account how people react, we want to make

by kposehn 15y ago

Thanks for the feedback. I think we've accounted for this with the stream and how likes/dislikes work. By taking into account how people react, we want to make what resonates more visible. Kind of like HN (but I had never touched HN when I came up with this). As for flags, the threshold for nuking a Thot with a flag varies - it is a bit of our secret sauce as to how we optimize. For self-categorization, that is coming in version 1.2 or 1.3. We know that as more people use it, content needs to get personalized. Definitely heading down that path quickly. Quality content and the people who make it need to shine :)

jtheory 15y ago
The thing that facebook has taught me with a vengeance is that the definition of "quality content" is extremely subjective and personal. With my close friends, we often have a lot of overlap. But once I'm out of that small circle (into the larger & more intellectually diverse group of "everyone who has ever friended me for whatever reason"), there are tons of things people post that get lots of likes from their own circles of friends that I find trivial/boring/irrelevant, misguided/false, or even ideologically repugnant. I'm not sure what kinds of content people are going to be posting as thots -- I'm curious about that (hopefully you'll post some data, like the okcupid data analyses at some point?), but I suspect that's going to be tricky to navigate. Something like HN with a technical focus is safer ground -- but if people are making political "jokes" etc. in their thots (or thotting humor that treads the line of offensive), you could have a decent percentage of content that resonates greatly with some folks and really irritates others.