Recklessly Seeking Sex on Craigslist

Re:Recklessly Seeking Sex on Craigslist by biotech on Saturday April 18, 2009 @09:28PM (#568975)

I think it's a kind of feed-forward system. If a person sees a couple sex-themed links on the front page, they are more likely to post another link with that theme.

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Re:Recklessly Seeking Sex on Craigslist by smanek on Saturday April 18, 2009 @09:36PM (#568984)

I don't think that's a feed-forward system ... Sounds more like a positive feedback loop.

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Re:Recklessly Seeking Sex on Craigslist by olefoo on Saturday April 18, 2009 @11:27PM (#569069)

There is a damping effect at work also. At some point too many articles about a given topic brings a backlash and the topic is 'done' at least for a while.

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Re:Recklessly Seeking Sex on Craigslist by Xichekolas on Sunday April 19, 2009 @01:17AM (#569128)

Often times I'll read a good article here, which leads me to explore a topic further, which can lead to articles I think worthy of posting.

I'd imagine that is why we see things show up in clusters like this.

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