Most tech content is bullshit

Re:Most tech content is bullshit by jacobobryant on Sunday June 07, 2020 @05:05PM (#23450819)

Mainly the former. Ideally you've experienced the things you've rated, but in many cases you can probably judge fairly accurately if you're interested in something based on a short description.

That brings up a key point which I'm not sure is clear to users or not: voting on items specifically means "this is/is not a good recommendation for me". It's not a judgment on the goodness of the item in general. So if findka showed me e.g. an article on pottery that looked high quality, I'd probably still downvote it since I'm not into pottery.

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Re:Most tech content is bullshit by polytely on Sunday June 07, 2020 @05:18PM (#23450922)

I think that is not really communicated in the current design, reminds me of the ratings on Netflix where they are intended as "Our estimation of this contents rating for you based on your viewing history" while most people I talked about it just thought it was the rating of the thing in itself.

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Re:Most tech content is bullshit by jacobobryant on Sunday June 07, 2020 @05:44PM (#23451141)

Good to know, any suggestions for making it clearer? Maybe thumbs up/down is the wrong labeling; perhaps something like "show me more like this" and "not interested"... though I have no idea what icons I would use for that.

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Re:Most tech content is bullshit by polytely on Monday June 08, 2020 @05:23AM (#23454998)

Might even be a good idea to just have text labels, I think just icons are way overrated in design.

[I hated this] [I'm interested in this] [I liked this]

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