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Patrick
2017 Aug 3, 4:57pm
The effect of using this technique is that if Bob agrees with Joe most of the time, Bob will see recommendations of Joe.
Isn't this what Facebook does, and results in echo chambers where you see only things you agree with already?
MisdemeanorRebel
2017 Aug 3, 5:50pm
Who would pay to advertise here? What product or service and to what demographic
Duh, Canned Yams.
Y
2017 Aug 3, 6:21pm
Precisely.
One can get the same effect by banning all people they disagree with most of the time...
Isn't this what Facebook does, and results in echo chambers where you see only things you agree with already?
Y
2017 Aug 3, 6:24pm
Maybe if we fed him and jacked him up to 12 lbs he'd be too stuffed to post as much...
Here's TPB's most recent post count per day:
select count(*), cast(post_date as date) as d from posts left join users on post_author=user_id
where user_name='Tenpoundbass' group by d order by d desc limit 20;
+----------+------------+
| count(*) | d |
+----------+------------+
The liberals ruined everything with high taxes
Only God and Guns can save us now
Friggin obama
And SJW and trannys!
Muslims in Afghanistan blargle glib blah
Vote Republican 4 life
Dan8267
2017 Aug 3, 6:50pm
Isn't this what Facebook does, and results in echo chambers where you see only things you agree with already?
It's called assortative mating. You actually get conversations with people that you have similar values to, not necessarily agree with. For example, Bob likes the same posts that Joe likes, but Joe likes some posts that introduce him to new ideas contradicting his current views. As a result, Bob sees those same new ideas that contradict Joe's views, and thus likely Bob's views.
You only get the echo chamber effect if you only like things that agree with your current views and only dislike things that contradict your current views. If you do that, then you are in effect asking only to see things that reinforce your current views. The solution is to like things more often and more heavily, if likes are non-binary, that are both insightful and surprising to you. This is what I do already.
Assortative mating is the correct approach to recommendations. That is why it is used throughout the IT and marketing industries. Amazon's product recommendations are also based on this idea.
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I'm sure this has been brought up before (today as a matter of fact, but not in a thoughtful way). Does anyone think there should at least be an hourly post limit (1 per hour or maybe even 1 every 3 hours - something along those lines) or even a daily limit per user? I just feel like a lot of shit gets thrown at the wall to see what sticks and 80% of it doesn't. There's a group of 4-5 users that on any given day can go ape shit posting pretty much dumpster fire material. 20% can be good or generate a debate, but it seems like a lot is just plain bad.
I know the tabs at the top can be used to sort the post differently, but I always go by the default I'm used to of active posts. It seems like it involves a lot of new posts as well that may not even have a comment on it. While I don't want to filter out new content/posts, sometimes one user can monopolize the entire homepage (depending on which tab you're in). Turns me off certain days when it's loaded with one users wall shit throwing. I can't imagine I'm the only one and I can imagine a first time visitor might have this same experience. I know I've missed posts where this has been talked about, but figured with some of the recent changes it might be worthwhile to master debate this around a bit again.
I'm game for limiting it to 8 posts a day I think. And posting more than 3 in a hour locks you out from creating new posts for the next 3 hours or something along those lines ( @Patrick not sure how hard or easy that would be). That's my first stab at it without a whole lot of thought.