Social Networks: It's worse than you think (2020)

Re:Social Networks: It's worse than you think (2020) by tobbykop on Saturday September 11, 2021 @10:06PM (#28497989)

> as the number of messages in the network rises, the quality of those which propagate falls

... if you assume people don`t read the message at all, but use a coin flip to decide if they should reshape it.

I cannot for the life of me fathom how anyone could make a model that completely ignores content quality in respect to distribution and then use that model to make a statement about average quality of content that gets distributed.

This really is the “sperical cow in a vacuum”equivalent of modeling social networks.

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Re:Social Networks: It's worse than you think (2020) by fighterpilot on Sunday September 12, 2021 @07:43AM (#28500284)

Garbage in garbage out. The conclusions necessarily follow from the assumptions they used. It's astounding that anyone is paying attention to this.

"Simulation shows that coinflip leads to 50/50 outcome." Genius.

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