mrbodoia

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by mrbodoia 10y ago
Sure, I'd love to hear your ideas!
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
That's basically the goal, yeah. I think it's very difficult to prevent people from being tribal and emotional at all, but I think the bigger issue right now is that existing platforms for political discussion encourage people to
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
That's a great idea - so great that it's already on my feature list! Post tags are something that I'm planning on implementing in the near future, though I'll need to think a little more about the best way to do them. I
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
I think this speaks to a larger question I'll have to answer, namely what is the threshold for "inappropriate" comments/behavior and how will moderation be enforced? I'm personally inclined to be fairly hands-off, s
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
Haha don't worry, I appreciate your input! I agree that some kind of cluster analysis could be an interesting alternative to the explicit categorization that the current site uses. I thought that self-selection would probably be the be
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
I didn't initially use a political test because I wanted the three categories to be less policy-based (e.g. what's your view on abortion/gun control/immigration) and more focused on people's emotional, "tribal&
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
I'll take a look at this. I thought his book was insightful, hopefully this quiz will be similarly so.
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
Thank you! Yeah the potential for abuse of ideological self-identification is definitely what I'm most worried about. I'm hoping that as long as there are enough truthful users, I can build a classifier based on their voting/
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
Yes, this was my intention with the three categories. I was hoping to find the right balance between too few categories (can't distinguish between ideological opposites) and too many categories (no meaningful signal from each category)
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
I would classify you as "neither". However, I acknowledge that this category is likely to be a lot less ideologically homogeneous than the other categories (though as you point out, the right has become less cohesive lately as wel
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
Yes I agree. The potential for lying about your affiliation is in my opinion the biggest problem with this concept. I'll have to see how much of a problem this is in practice, and whether there are ways I could incentivize users to be
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
My intention was that the "best" sort would be equivalent to "least partisan". Under this ordering, posts which have strong support from all three user groups are ranked highest (specifically, it's ordered by log(le
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
Haha that's a great question. I also think that for a site like this, it's important to not only consider how to get enough users, but how to get high-quality users. So while a Twitter spam campaign might lead to lots of signups,
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
This is a good idea. In fact, it might be interesting to include answers to these questions as part of a user's profile. So if you're curious about the particular political stance of a fellow user, you could look at their profile
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
If I were you, I would select "Neither". My intention was to make the "Neither" category a catch-all for those who don't strongly identify with either the left or the right. However, as other commentators have noted
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
Thank you! This is a good suggestion, and something that other commenters have mentioned as well. I was purposefully vague about the category names because I didn't want them to be too strict. The original implementation had "libe
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
Regarding political categories on signup: I can try to provide some examples. In some sense though, I think that it should be based less on specific stances (do you support gun control? more taxes or less?) and more on your gut feeling. So
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by mrbodoia 10y ago
Hey everyone! In light of recent discussions about how political news is propagated, I thought some of you might be interested in a side project I've been working on. Tripartisan is a news aggregator (similar to HN, reddit, or voat) fo
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Show HN: Tripartisan – an echo-resistant political news aggregator(tripartisan.io)
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