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Re:A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algori... by bigbugbag on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:10AM (#15958828)
To the contrary, someone posting infrequently would not help with keeping facebook's useds engaged on the website to be shown ads, profiled and whatever facebook's shenaningans are at the moment.
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Re:A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algori... by hanspeter on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:34AM (#15958956)
That's not the issue. The issue is if a post from an infrequent poster is more interesting than a post from a frequent poster. The prevailing believe is that this is actually the case. And in that case Facebook would also profit from prioritising the infrequent poster's post.
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