1749 sats \ 7 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 14 Sep 2023 \ on: Stacker Saloon
I'll be honest, I find myself taking a few of the high signal links that are sometimes posted to "recent" and reposting it on nostr for more engagement / conversation around it. Sometimes don't really have an incentive to upvote the original along the way. High quality conversations here don't seem to happen like they used to. It's just community stuff now. Which is fine if that's what it ends up being and most people are happy with it.
Probably not a very good user but this is what the incentives align up for me atm. I'll upvote something if it's OG and I feel like adds signal but otherwise I think I'll lurk more and just scan recent for news to share opinions on elsewhere. Maybe it's from many more users, or maybe the comment rewards are gamed too much by the circle jerking in the saloon, but the high signal conversations have fallen off.
Thanks for the feedback, maybe personalized feeds will help in the future :)
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Tony is describing a deeper dynamic (in part and in the first paragraph at least). While he's too humble to consider himself such, for stars and rising stars, Twitter-like experiences will always be more engaging and rewarding. Afaict forums are a relatively level playing field meant for "the rest of us" who aren't content watching the stars from the bleachers.
Perhaps conversations have become shallow as a result of there being more of them, which has so many inputs, but I haven't noticed much of an absolute downward change in high quality takes (I'd guess the opposite). Indeed, perhaps personalized ranking will allow us each to subjectively see our preferred signal band as noise increases.
Still it won't change that this format favors weak identities just as well as the strong and that's not going to be valuable for everyone and that's okay.
+1 on the excellent and thoughtful feedback
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Every star is rising if you stand in the right place.
- Tupac Chopra
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This is a pretty good analysis, will give it some thought.
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Curious how you'd characterize the "high quality/signal conversations" -- I've actually had the opposite impression, in that sometimes (not always) there's really thoughtful engagement around here. I've never found it elsewhere. If it used to be even better, then man, that must have been something!
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