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> That is true. I don't agree. You're going to have different communities, just as reddit does now. Intellectuals are (likely) not going to be posting in /r/I-

> That is true. I don't agree. You're going to have different communities, just as reddit does now. Intellectuals are (likely) not going to be posting in /r/I-love-taylor-swift; they would post to their own communities as they do now. If you're concerned about what makes it to the front page, you use a different algorithm than reddit uses. Or, better yet, you allow mods (or even users) to customize the algorithm their subs use.

clemensley 11y ago
I hope you are right. One would really have to think about how to give users more control over the content they see. Allowing mods to tweak the sorting algorithm is a great idea to do this by the way. Ultimately I think it is wrong that people put so much effort into social media and do not get rewarded for it in a meaningful way (and no, I don't consider a "like" or an "upvote" a sufficient reward). If we could find a way to reward people monetarily for producing and finding valuable content, that might lead to a huge increase in quality. I have this theory for how companies could be built: look for where value in transferred on the internet (for example if someone watches a video on YouTube, value is transferred from the video producer to the viewer); then send bitcoin in the other direction. This model seems much more efficient to me compared to today's model where the value from the content consumer to the content produces is transferred through a sequence of intermediaries (social media sites, advertisers, advertising networks) that all take a cut. Obviously one needs to think about the incentives for all actors, I do not think that donation based networks will work because there is really not much incentive to donate.
- c_prompt 11y ago
  > Allowing mods to tweak the sorting algorithm is a great idea to do this by the way. Already built. The front page algorithm section at valME.io allows you to select reddit's as the default [1] or choose your own customizations (include NSFW, max hours to evaluate post, num of posts on front page, num of karma by karma type and weightings, OP's karma balance and weighting, OP num of comments, post views, OP age, num of OP flags, etc.) [1] https://gist.github.com/touhonoob/2923094 https://gist.github.com/touhonoob/2923094

clemensley 11y ago

I hope you are right. One would really have to think about how to give users more control over the content they see. Allowing mods to tweak the sorting algorithm is a great idea to do this by the way. Ultimately I think it is wrong that people put so much effort into social media and do not get rewarded for it in a meaningful way (and no, I don't consider a "like" or an "upvote" a sufficient reward). If we could find a way to reward people monetarily for producing and finding valuable content, that might lead to a huge increase in quality. I have this theory for how companies could be built: look for where value in transferred on the internet (for example if someone watches a video on YouTube, value is transferred from the video producer to the viewer); then send bitcoin in the other direction. This model seems much more efficient to me compared to today's model where the value from the content consumer to the content produces is transferred through a sequence of intermediaries (social media sites, advertisers, advertising networks) that all take a cut. Obviously one needs to think about the incentives for all actors, I do not think that donation based networks will work because there is really not much incentive to donate.

c_prompt 11y ago
> Allowing mods to tweak the sorting algorithm is a great idea to do this by the way. Already built. The front page algorithm section at valME.io allows you to select reddit's as the default [1] or choose your own customizations (include NSFW, max hours to evaluate post, num of posts on front page, num of karma by karma type and weightings, OP's karma balance and weighting, OP num of comments, post views, OP age, num of OP flags, etc.) [1] https://gist.github.com/touhonoob/2923094 https://gist.github.com/touhonoob/2923094