YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form

Re:YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form by et-al on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @02:03AM (#16808445)

> The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up

People do write replies, but I feel the conversation is much terse these days. I enjoy HN because in general the crowd here is more mature and willing to invest in an informative thoughtout reply instead of just witty one-liners for karma (which I'm glad people here downvote).

But yeah, I wonder what if we took away the "likes". We had an internet and community without them before.

PS Thanks for the book recommendation.

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Re:YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form by jstandard on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @02:06PM (#16813759)

> People do write replies, but I feel the conversation is much terse these days.

I'm not sure how recent that phenomenon actually is. I think it's more that the social tools where people congregate made it easier and even incentivize responses.

A larger number of people with less to say will respond because these systems are designed to cultivate response.

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