How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place

Re:How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place by sbardle on Friday March 31, 2017 @12:33PM (#14005447)

Didn't Friendfeed invent the Like button?

The article goes too far but there is something to be said about its core argument.

I don't think the Like button or emojis are good at recognising Value. A popular extrovert with 1000 fb friends uploads a selfie and gets 100 Likes.

Meanwhile a quiet but conscientious person uploads a before and after picture of a litter-pick they have undertaken and they get 2 Likes from their 50 friends.

There has to be a better way of recognising and incentivising the latter activity across social networks.

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Re:How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place by et-al on Friday March 31, 2017 @12:49PM (#14005620)

This was an issue when Twitter/Facebook/Instagram switched from chronological feeds to "curated" feeds. i.e. Let's increase the echo chamber.

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Re:How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place by sbardle on Friday March 31, 2017 @01:20PM (#14005941)

Great point.

Also, I think a problem is one person can only send one like.

Returning to my example, I'd like to be able to give the litter picker 20 likes, and maybe the Selfie uploader 1 like.

I think there has to the option of another accreditation technology which runs across social networks.

It's an area I'm interested in and looking to do my next project on...

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Re:How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place by radix07 on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:06PM (#14006364)

Then you should go to slashdot, they have been doing that for awhile...

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Re:How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place by smcnally on Friday March 31, 2017 @07:45PM (#14009427)

Doing which? Allowing multiple likes? Cross-site accreditation?

Slashdot hands out Moderation points sometimes, and asks people to meta-moderate sometimes -- both different from Likes.

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Re:How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place by slau on Saturday April 01, 2017 @05:32AM (#14011356)

For varying definitions of "sometimes."

I don't visit Slashdot anymore, but for the period between 2004-2010, I had virtually unlimited mod points.

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Re:How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place by smcnally on Saturday April 01, 2017 @01:55PM (#14013239)

Understood. Even then, though, you couldn't mod the same item more than once, iirc

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