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> It's like a more mature reddit This piqued my interest, but then on the front page I found "Britney Spears' music used by British navy to scare off Somali pi

by Skoofoo 13y ago

> It's like a more mature reddit This piqued my interest, but then on the front page I found "Britney Spears' music used by British navy to scare off Somali pirates". Then I check out the 'architecture' tribe and the top post is "21 Houses to Avoid on Halloween". Perhaps I am not the target market for this, but what I would like to see is a social news site that actively rejects junk content and promotes content that helps you become a better, smarter person.

krapp 13y ago
I think there's an implicit conflict of interest between the features and focus of a "social" site, and quality of content. Appealing to the lowest common demoninator will drive up your status (views, karma, XP, whatever) faster than content which invites debate and possibly criticism. I noticed the urls for the stories on this site branch out from user accounts too -- to me that's a bit of a red flag that whatever passes for karma-whoring over there will be an issue, since there's a direct association between story, user and user status. I don't know how you would engineer actively rejects junk content, if you even could - it seems to me having a site where users post content means a community has to be reactive about curating it. Maybe focusing on content groups rather than user groups or having it be invite-only. But still, what you want lies mostly in the eye of the beholder.
- kindlez 13y ago
  We have (and try to keep improving) an intelligent system that prevents "brigading" by limiting the amount of power from individual sources (such as someones followers) that would otherwise give a huge and unfair advantage. We aim to have the social features as a secondary companion to naturally shared content (only used as tiebreakers, etc). This means that a user with 5000 followers will have little advantage to a user with 5 followers. The same goes for the prevention of too many image/video/gif snaps beating out quality written articles on our front page, which may take a considerably longer time to consume and longer to vote on. There will always be obstacles and problems when trying to pave a new direction, but that's the best part. It's what keeps us going ;)
kindlez 13y ago
I cannot find a way to reply to the first portion of your comment because I cannot speak for our current users and what their individual interests are. Everyone is provided the same tools to use and they use them as they best seem fit. I do understand your point though. One of the highest of our priorities is to continue developing ways to discourage crappy/lazy/junk content from being posted and voted on. And that's why were trying our best and actively listening to feedback like the one you just provided.

by Skoofoo 13y ago

krapp 13y ago

I think there's an implicit conflict of interest between the features and focus of a "social" site, and quality of content. Appealing to the lowest common demoninator will drive up your status (views, karma, XP, whatever) faster than content which invites debate and possibly criticism. I noticed the urls for the stories on this site branch out from user accounts too -- to me that's a bit of a red flag that whatever passes for karma-whoring over there will be an issue, since there's a direct association between story, user and user status. I don't know how you would engineer actively rejects junk content, if you even could - it seems to me having a site where users post content means a community has to be reactive about curating it. Maybe focusing on content groups rather than user groups or having it be invite-only. But still, what you want lies mostly in the eye of the beholder.

kindlez 13y ago
We have (and try to keep improving) an intelligent system that prevents "brigading" by limiting the amount of power from individual sources (such as someones followers) that would otherwise give a huge and unfair advantage. We aim to have the social features as a secondary companion to naturally shared content (only used as tiebreakers, etc). This means that a user with 5000 followers will have little advantage to a user with 5 followers. The same goes for the prevention of too many image/video/gif snaps beating out quality written articles on our front page, which may take a considerably longer time to consume and longer to vote on. There will always be obstacles and problems when trying to pave a new direction, but that's the best part. It's what keeps us going ;)

kindlez 13y ago

I cannot find a way to reply to the first portion of your comment because I cannot speak for our current users and what their individual interests are. Everyone is provided the same tools to use and they use them as they best seem fit. I do understand your point though. One of the highest of our priorities is to continue developing ways to discourage crappy/lazy/junk content from being posted and voted on. And that's why were trying our best and actively listening to feedback like the one you just provided.