“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”

Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” by TulliusCicero on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:11AM (#26155271)

Yes, Reddit basically encourages flashy comments.

But the rub with traditional message boards is, that they don't scale well. Some subreddits have many, many thousands of active regular participants. It's hard for a single subforum to operate at that scale.

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Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” by starpilot on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:50AM (#26155887)

Isn't this the same as the algo-driven placement of HN stories and comments?

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Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” by TulliusCicero on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @12:59PM (#26156743)

To a certain extent, yes, though my understanding is that HN's comment ranking algorithm is substantially different from Reddit's.

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Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” by gibspaulding on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @02:02PM (#26157454)

Also, HN is more of a news feed than a forum, so it makes sense to favor newer posts over knowledge-base type threads.

Makes me sort of want an HN forum though. Maybe limited to self posts and with a more chronological feed.

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