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Re:Facebook relies on editors' judgment for trending news fe... by Angostura on Friday May 13, 2016 @08:24AM (#11689963)
I really don;t see anything horrible about a mixture of human curation and algorithmic work at all. It's the way that Digg works, for example.

What make it 'horrible' in your view? An implicit suggestion that 'trending' is mathematically deduced a la Reddit's 'Hot'?

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Re:Facebook relies on editors' judgment for trending news fe... by TrevorJ on Friday May 13, 2016 @01:42PM (#11691894)
There's nothing wrong with it, the problem is calling it 'trending'. Trending implies that these are the things that the users on facebook are talking about. If the list is, in fact curated by facebook employees then that's fine but it shouldn't be passed off as trending.
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