kasdeya
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okay so y’all know how platforms like reddit tend to favor extremely low-attention-span content? specifically the posts tend to optimize for the minimum length of stimulus required to get a user to hit the upvote button and move on
I was thinking that an interesting experiment might be to create a reddit-like interface where you have to hold the vote buttons in order to vote. like you have to hold it for a full second, which gives you enough time to process whether or not it’s really worth upvoting
it might help counter knee-jerk downvoting too. you know like the whole “the first 6 words of your post sounds like it’s disagreeing with me so I’ll downvote and move on” kind of stuff
in general I think that adding friction to potentially-addictive/mindless feedboxes like reddit might be a good way to make them less addictive and overall healthier, by forcing people to use them more intentionally
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here’s another thought: instead of having a downvote option, what if there were multiple buttons for marking a post as unhelpful, inaccurate, or derailing? they would function similarly to a downvote where posts would be hidden based on the ratio of those markings vs. upvotes, but you would be able to see the breakdown of why people are “downvoting” the post
I think that might make people more intentional about why they downvote something instead of the usual knee-jerk “this post makes me angy >:(“
it would also be pretty cool if different communities/“subreddits” could have different markings based on what specific things they don’t want in that community
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The mathe they use to rate/sort/randomize the order of their comments won't work with there are multiple different kinds of badness
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@kasdeya medium used to have, like, claps? which was ..wild. the more you clicked the button the stronger a signal it was to the algorithm
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