Re:The deplatforming of a president: An unprecedented week f...
by dasil003 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:34PM
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Sure there is groupthink, we're mostly software engineers. But it's a relatively small group, uniform presentation visible to anyone, and very limited reach. Contrast with what's going on in Twitter and Facebook: many orders of magnitude more reach, and it's almost impossible to have any idea what people are seeing or saying in aggregate, and what the many small groupthink bubbles are.
The forums that I used to use simply made the top shown comments/threads the most recent activity.
The default HN view is clearly based on some algorithm to calculate what is "worth" being on the front page. I read the high comment topics, and there is a ton of groupthink and pushing controversy.
This is also why the HN effect is even a concept. There are enough people here watching controversial topics to hug a modern website to death.