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17 sats \ 4 replies \ @Coinsreporter 19h \ parent \ on: Does the Stacker News model of internet forum disincentivize AI slop? meta
Thanks for clarifying.
I think it's correct but many times pieces that are worth zapping go unnoticed. Does that make them bad?
not at all. probably I'm just trying to bend the bard too far. But I think about something like this a lot: can there be good stories that nobody reads?
I've spent a lot of time writing stories that people don't read. I think they're good, but if nobody reads them, what evidence do I have? I don't think I'm willing to buy that it's good purely because I produced it (that it's good for me). A good story is a story that captures people's minds and so in my book a story that doesn't have any readers isn't a very good story...yet.
So perhaps the same can be said of posts on SN. If it goes unnoticed, maybe it is bad. However, it's nothing a little noticing won't fix.
True for both cases is that there is more going on than the quality of the work.
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For example: if I've never come across your stories, I can't say they are good or bad. The same happens on SN for many pieces, mostly because there's a lot of subjective partiality on SN while zapping/appreciating by a mere comment. Or I dare say that because some stackers don't like anything other than what their own they don't zap the good things by someone else.
Therefore we see only a few stackers zapping the top content these days.
In my understanding if zaps are to be the criteria of deciding good content, the value behind zaps must be eradicated. If SN needs to scale up faster, it should be free from any subjective biases/partiality.
Therefore the posts on the front page should rank by the number of sats zapped in last 24 hours.
What happens when the value behind the zAps get involved, it creates an automatic personalised list for someone/those who has/have highest/higher zap value. Is it good? Can two different people's taste be exactly similar?
I'm sure if we try it, we'll see more zaps from More people.
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People need to see a thing to decide of its good or bad. That's fair. If I published my story on Amazon and didn't do any advertising, maybe it isn't bad, it just didn't get seen.
However, SN is much smaller than Amazon. I think most posts here get seen by at least a few stackers. Would these posts stack more sats if they made it to the front page?
It would be interesting if there was a slot on the front page reserved for the most recent post. Maybe it would help with discovery.
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It would be interesting if there was a slot on the front page reserved for the most recent post. Maybe it would help with discovery.
Yeah, it'd help a lot. A slider with 4 or 5 recent posts can be there. Another one with the 'most zapped' can also be put up. I don't know how difficult it can be technically but the UI of SN needs a bit of retouch.
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