20 sats \ 3 replies \ @carlosfandango 16 Jul 2023 \ parent \ on: Daily discussion thread
Agreed. The interface is very clean. Slight concern some discussions become lost under the weight of posts.
And lazy reposting from other sites without an attempt by the posters to add opinion or value is annoying.
I also think links-only is annoying as a general construct, but have made my peace with it as probably a "revealed preference" thing -- some people just don't have anything much to say, and if you tried to force them to say something, it would be garbage. This way at least you don't incentivize garbage. They could still surface things I might like to find.
It would be interesting if there was some sense of "localized reputation" -- I understand that SN has a global status / reputation score (forget what it's called) but if there was also a local one (e.g., per user), it would be helpful in some cases. For instance, I tend to like things that the majority of readers probably don't (e.g., contrary / critical takes about some btc sacred cows), so submissions that might be just my jam would never be seen.
Solving this well would be a research problem. It would also introduce tradeoffs that they might not want to make.
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Our reputation system already computes localized reputation. We all just use the reputation scores local to me.
I've been doing some less glamorous work over the last week, but this is the next major feature I'll be developing.
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Interesting. Whilst I agree we don’t want to incentivise garbage I worry people are just posting for the sake of it.
I’m looking forward to seeing where this is headed and am optimistic.
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