86 sats \ 11 replies \ @k00b 30 Jun 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
New trust algo is looking pretty good. We basically use a statistical model to get a pretty good guess about the proportion a user's upvotes will be like another user's upvotes even from small sample size of upvotes.
There are a surprising number of folks who upvote well but never post, and many who post well but upvote poorly, so hopefully this will help good content surface faster/stronger and keep bad content down. It, too, is just an iteration but an iteration seemingly in the right direction.
I still need to figure out how we'll be adjusting daily rewards. It currently under rewards folks who are here frequently/contributing meaningfully and over rewards folks who are here infrequently and contribute weakly.
We are considering moving away from users getting rewarded for any past content, and only rewarding users based on the last 24 hours of content/revenue.
I should note that none of this is live yet. I have to decide whether I want to ship as is or also revamp rewards in the same release and pay down some related tech debt.
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24h seems pretty short time frame to me.
everything else sounds right :D
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agree it seems kind of short and divides sats amongst a small number of individuals who might be incentivize to post more noise.
Wonder if averaging out contributions over a week might smooth things out a bit more..
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Why? It ties rewards directly to actions you recently made and the rewards will be much larger for the users who are rewarded.
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Because it force people to visit the page everyday...
I mean, sometimes a good news can be viewed and commented for more than 24h
I mean I think is a good idea to reduce the time, but 24h seems kind of rushy...
Is just an idea btw :)
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You don’t need to visit everyday to get your rewards. You just can’t earn rewards tomorrow if you don’t contribute today. We can adjust it as time goes on … just trying to see what we can do to incentivize better content.
Right now it rewards a long tail of mediocre content and I think that’s bad for most users.
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Well for sure rewarding old content is not the best approach.
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When you mention "upvote well", are you taking about the number of sats donated to a particular post, or the number of upvote interactions (independent of sat value) across a number of individual postings?
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I mean, upvote like other users. E.g. to create a trust relationship between you and me, I look at everything you've upvoted (
n, the number of trials) and see how many times I upvoted the same thing (s, successful trials). I then have a sample proportion of trust s/n.Then I construct a binomial proportion interval with a 95% confidence level and take the lower bound. This is how much I trust you ... it works out nicely, because as you upvote more things, I get closer and closer to how much I actually trust your upvotes - yet even if you haven't upvoted many things I can make a reasonable (yet pessimistic) guess as to how much I should trust you.
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Did the layout for long posts that would end up multi-line get changed (to truncate the display of the URL ?) Or has it been that way, and I just now am noticing it?
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always has been meme ... well, since I made that change like 6 months ago. It's not pretty but I was trying to save vertical space on mobile.
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