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One of reddit's key features in the early days was a "recommended" page that was supposedly trained by your up/down votes. It never seemed to work all that well
by twoodfin 13y ago
One of reddit's key features in the early days was a "recommended" page that was supposedly trained by your up/down votes. It never seemed to work all that well and was abandoned after a year or so.
- incision 13y agoI always though this was a horrible idea for a system where users are simultaneously consumers expressing their preferences and curators/creators being rated through the same metric. I recall lots of angry back and forth between folks demanding justification for downvotes received and downvoters who intended to train recommendations.
- twoodfin 13y agoI will admit to using the "I'm training the recommended filter" excuse to justify downvotes long after the recommended page went away. Once the admins caved and added /r/politics, I gave it up.