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Re:Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th by dvtrn on Monday December 03, 2018 @03:13PM (#18592462)
optimize for engagement

This to me seems like it's the key to all of this, or at least a portion of it that really shouldn't be ignored. As I shared, if my ex had other ongoing issues under the surface, they were never presented and she did a great job keeping the visible symptoms from manifesting for the better part of three years.

Maybe she didn't realize they were there herself, hard to blame anyone for that.

It doesn't seem that remarkable, contentious or incendiary of an idea to wonder if following these blogs and communities infiltrated and started poking at something that was already there, driving a curiosity to dig further, effectively picking at a scab....so to speak. And when the platform responds to your interactions, likes, reshares, searches by pushing more of that in your face, it doesn't seem any more remarkable that someone could find themselves facing mental anguish or other personal/emotional problems that wouldn't have ever otherwise seen the light of day.

Re:Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th by village-idiot on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:03PM (#18592965)
Optimization for engagement is actually quite scary to me: because the effects upon the user (beyond engagement) are literally meaningless. If the system can burn out your mental health while increasing engagement, it can and will make that choice.
Re:Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th by dvtrn on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:16PM (#18593125)
If the system can burn out your mental health while increasing engagement, it can and will make that choice.

While the platform, many more times than not profits from that engagement? I completely agree.