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But you're describing the engagement cage, while I'm just pointing that you need to be careful not to escape from it just to get trapped inside the comfort cage
by nottorp 1y ago
But you're describing the engagement cage, while I'm just pointing that you need to be careful not to escape from it just to get trapped inside the comfort cage.
- Karrot_Kream 1y agoIs there a rigorous definition of "engagement cage" or is the term just HN-tuned engagement bait? (: Fundamentally content discovery is always an explore-exploit loop. What you tune the loop with is what makes it useful for any given purpose.
- nottorp 1y ago> Fundamentally content discovery is always an explore-exploit loop Is it? Or only when you do it for profit?
- Karrot_Kream 1y agoHuh? "Explore" means to show the user new content. "Exploit" is to show more of the same content. You can say the HN algorithm does both as well: the front page shows a variety of topics allowing you to explore but the upvotes "exploit" shared interest by bumping it higher in page rankings.