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You work on a forum - it is by design limited to some area(s) of focus. Twitter is not like that. I think forums are great. I think forums are better than Twit
by csours 4y ago
You work on a forum - it is by design limited to some area(s) of focus. Twitter is not like that.
I think forums are great. I think forums are better than Twitter, because they can have some focus. I think social media probably doesn't scale, because social groups will always surface conflict.
I think you can design those algorithms if you know what area(s) your community cares about. Twitter cares about everything.
- boplicity 4y agoThe algorithms I've designed are in no way aware of the content of the post -- and they have worked as intended; reducing the amount of inflammatory posts that are surfaced. I don't see how, in this case, large social companies can't implement similar, content agnostic algorithms. There are very simple signals of "quality" that are not based on the actual content beyond the length of the post. It's not that different than search algorithms, actually, which don't have the same problem with surfacing inflammatory posts. Yes, those signal may be wrong in some contexts, but the signals that are currently being used are certainly wrong in many contexts right now, hence this discussion.
- csours 4y agoIt's not just the content of the posts or discussion, it's the content of the people coming to your site.