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"Everything on the Interent will be gamed. And user generated content won't stay "user" generated forever. The pros will crash any party that's worth crashing a

by shayan 19y ago

"Everything on the Interent will be gamed. And user generated content won't stay "user" generated forever. The pros will crash any party that's worth crashing and make it their own. " techmeme, reddit, digg and others are all great as long as we can prevent users from cheating the system ... they kind of remind me of Yahoo and other search engines in the early days which had very simple ways of ordering the search results (and many took advantage and got better rankings for their sites), and then came about the more complicated Google ranking with much improved results (yes there exist SEO but half of SEO is to improve your site as well, and you don't really get on top of the list really easily) I think as time goes by someone will find a way to make it harder for people to cheat the system and give news that is more relevant

marcus 19y ago
There will always be a drive to game the system, that is the greatest advantage of small communities like this one a lot less incentive to game it. But the problem is not exactly the same, Google still almost always gives the same results to everybody (they are doing some experiments in personalized search but they haven't rolled out these features).
- shayan 19y ago
  yes you are right but none of the sites I mentioned are trying to give you customized, personal news... I was mostly referring to them rather than the customized version And to be honest I am not sure if it is a good idea to go really customized based on my preferences, since I really think there might be stuff that I should know about, but I just have no idea what they are and someone or something needs to point them out to me. But to be customized at a more general level, would in fact give you what the current sites are (but are doing a somewhat poor job at it as we mentioned). For instance, you come here for startup and hacker news, and you go to techmeme for tech, and you could find yourself on reddit for politics and so on. So to some extend they are customized, since they are more focused, but not so focused. Its all about filtering the noise, but thats very subjective, as any news on Paris Hilton might be noise to me but must read for someone else!

by shayan 19y ago

marcus 19y ago

There will always be a drive to game the system, that is the greatest advantage of small communities like this one a lot less incentive to game it. But the problem is not exactly the same, Google still almost always gives the same results to everybody (they are doing some experiments in personalized search but they haven't rolled out these features).

shayan 19y ago
yes you are right but none of the sites I mentioned are trying to give you customized, personal news... I was mostly referring to them rather than the customized version And to be honest I am not sure if it is a good idea to go really customized based on my preferences, since I really think there might be stuff that I should know about, but I just have no idea what they are and someone or something needs to point them out to me. But to be customized at a more general level, would in fact give you what the current sites are (but are doing a somewhat poor job at it as we mentioned). For instance, you come here for startup and hacker news, and you go to techmeme for tech, and you could find yourself on reddit for politics and so on. So to some extend they are customized, since they are more focused, but not so focused. Its all about filtering the noise, but thats very subjective, as any news on Paris Hilton might be noise to me but must read for someone else!