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thirtythreeforty Link ParentThe "has this been said" filter strikes me as a really good idea. A while ago, xkcd's IRC server had a channel called #signal designed to increase the "signal/noise ratio." They had a policy: say...- Exemplary
The "has this been said" filter strikes me as a really good idea. A while ago, xkcd's IRC server had a channel called #signal designed to increase the "signal/noise ratio." They had a policy: say something that has never been said before. If you didn't, a bot would mute you for a few seconds, then minutes, etc.
This worked really well. You couldn't reply to a question with "that's ridiculous" because that had already been said in the channel at some point long ago. This, combined with a culture of inteligent discussion, made the channel quite nice to sit and have a discussion in.
I think some flavor of this - perhaps advice from suitably-designed AI influencing the ranking of comments and posts - would make nice discussions everywhere. Of course, it would only attract people who wanted a discussion and not a flamewar. For me at least, that is a feature and not a bug.
Counterpoint: What if I hypothetically let you run pre-roll ads on my household's local instance of Jellyfin, I'll even give you a very attractive per-impression rate - half of what Reddit is charging.
Of course nobody is interested! They still have to spend time (== fixed cost overhead) fooling with it. There are multiple opportunity costs related to running ads on an irrelevant platform.
Obviously it's a continuum, and somewhere along it is the point where it's no longer desirable.