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Re:Sharecropping: A Sucker’s Game Then — and Now by raverbashing on Sunday March 10, 2013 @07:39AM (#5351502)
This is very insightful, but see:

"Then Facebook announced that for all your best efforts to drive organic engagement, the reality is that only about 15 percent of your content would actually be visible to those people who had specifically requested (through “liking” you) to see your updates."

From the perception of someone saying they "like" something, that (in the origins of Facebook) was exactly that, and not a way to connect to a post stream

So what FB is doing there is preventing a single (tenant) entity from ruining the experience, and this is laudable.

FB don't want to die a death by a thousand cuts (or cat pictures, or 'reshare if you want Jesus in your life', etc, etc)

So if they are showing it by relevance this is important.

Of course the opposite happens as well, like in G+, that is so feud like, only the most popular content ends up there, so you may have the long tail, the most popular content and a gaping hole in the middle

Re:Sharecropping: A Sucker’s Game Then — and Now by notahacker on Sunday March 10, 2013 @09:25AM (#5351775)
Exactly.

If the first argument for Facebook being evil you think of is "They filter marketing messages I hoped to be able to bombard users with at no cost, irrespective of whether they actually showed any interest beyond once clicking a like button" you're probably worse than them...

Re:Sharecropping: A Sucker’s Game Then — and Now by codva on Sunday March 10, 2013 @10:47AM (#5352104)
If you didn't want to actually see the updates from a page you liked it was (is?) simple enough to mute it in your newsfeed. It's not different than emails from a website where you bought something. If the emails are occasional and even relevant, you'll probably let them be. If they spam you every 3rd day, you'll unsubscribe. If anything, rate limiting the updates from pages only encourages them to post more often, in hopes of getting through to more people.
Re:Sharecropping: A Sucker’s Game Then — and Now by cybernomad99 on Monday March 11, 2013 @06:23AM (#5355847)
Or company won't spend as much as they used to get those "likes". Do pizza companies still give out free pizza to get users to become a fan of them?
Re:Sharecropping: A Sucker’s Game Then — and Now by lingben on Sunday March 10, 2013 @12:15PM (#5352395)
> So what FB is doing there is preventing a single (tenant) entity from ruining the experience, and this is laudable.

the user has been in charge from the start, they can remove it from their stream or simply 'unlike' or unsubscribe

what fb did is nothing more than a cash-grab and it will come back to haunt them

Re:Sharecropping: A Sucker’s Game Then — and Now by raverbashing on Sunday March 10, 2013 @12:26PM (#5352441)
...or he can stop using fb, loss for fb

It's not a matter of simply "unliking" the page, sure, I've done that to a couple of annoying pages, but fb is interested in its product as a whole.

Also, I haven't seen content being hidden in most pages (you can always check the page and all the content is there), of course, the abusers have been 'unliked' by me already (but this is not what most people do)