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Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by Graffur »

MattRix wrote: post #79
warent wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is about as different as you can get from Reddit. For example, Reddit encourages herd behavior, minimal-effort glib interactions, and addictive content. HN discourages herd behavior, is quite difficult for most newcomers because the higher effort required, and even includes a built-in anti-procrastination feature.

You can tell yourself that, but it just isn’t true. It really depends entirely on the subreddit itself. There are plenty of Reddit subreddits with high quality content, discussion, etc.

You can have that thought - but it's incorrect.

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by vimacs2 »

nojito wrote: post #95
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit's recommendations are total garbage. But YouTube is actually even worse. For instance, Eddie Van Halen recently died. So I clicked on a few links from Twitter to check out some concert highlights from his life and career. Now my entire YouTube recommendations feed is nothing but Van Halen and 1980s rock music. The Go-Go's recently got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I clicked on a few links from…

> But YouTube is actually even worse. Youtube's recommendation engine is to get you click on it and watch a certain percentage. It's not designed to show you things that you "like." It's way more sophisticated than that.

That's a strange definition of "sophisticated" you got there.

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

ALittleLight wrote: post #77

My own experience says that you should not attempt to make a serious change without being able to evaluate whether or not your attempt has worked. That could be as simple as fixing a bug - you need a test that would have caught the bug and it (and all your other tests) needs to pass once your fix is in. That could be as complex as something like this, improving your recommendation system. To evaluate something like t…

Experimental design is boring and ML is cool. Hence why you see things like this.

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by thatfunkymunki »

floatingatoll wrote: post #86
thatfunkymunki wrote: post #17

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you're suggesting comments should not be visible on your profile? but visible on the page they are commented on? not sure how this would make sense.

That wasn’t what I read, but it’s a lovely idea. Is that something we can have?

this would have the effect of making everyone's activity private to everyone except for scrapers (the actual bad people nobody wants to see their activity). Not sure how this would increase privacy at all. Activity on reddit outside of private subreddits is known to be public

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by ALittleLight »

hypertele-Xii wrote: post #88
throwaway3699 wrote: post #21

> Gazette: Feature Stores and Model Prediction Engine When did developers stop naming things properly and go straight to weird codenames? What is wrong with 'recommendation service'?

> What is wrong with 'recommendation service'? Telling dozens of competing recommendation services apart somehow.

RedditRecommendationService. Although, "Recommendation Service" is likely plenty clear if used in a discussion between two reddit engineers.

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by twic »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #62
drost wrote: post #29

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I'm not saying those linked comments are not authentic, but r/AgainstHateSubreddits does post hateful content on subreddits they want to get banned.

You're going to need to provide a citation for such a big claim.

Purportedly, a former AHS footsoldier talks about some of what goes on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG8xWJaJO-c

I've heard about AHS false flag operations many times, but i've never seen incontrovertible evidence of it. It feels like something that competent and technically savvy mods should be able to document. I'm not sure how many mods are even one of competent and technically savvy, let alone both.

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by breakingcups »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #71
zitterbewegung wrote: post #43

I didn't realize that Reddit even recommends you content. And I can't tell the difference between before and after these recommendations are coming in. The blog post feels like one that Youtube made about their recommender system and how it improved but, their recommender system doesn't work. Reddit has been sort of this weird place where they face the issues that Digg and Twitter have and want to slowly transition i…

Reddit's recommendations are total garbage. But YouTube is actually even worse. For instance, Eddie Van Halen recently died. So I clicked on a few links from Twitter to check out some concert highlights from his life and career. Now my entire YouTube recommendations feed is nothing but Van Halen and 1980s rock music. The Go-Go's recently got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I clicked on a few links from…

I remember when I started using YouTube, their recommendations were excellent. I could get completely lost in each next recommendation and they were nearly allr elated to the content I just watched (and was thus clearly in the mood for).

Nowadays it's hot garbage. I just checked. There's 7 videos in there it's been pushing on me for the better part of the year but I have no interest in. 4 videos I've already watched (and it KNOWS this because it shows the full red bar at the bottom), 3 videos I bailed out of because they were not interesting. How many that are related to the video I just watched? Zero.

The original algorithm was clearly and forcefully replaced by something that was advantageous to YouTube's metric but I'd wager detrimental to the majority of their users. Everything feels dumbed down now and it's clear video's are playing to this new kind of algorithm in attempts to cling to their audience.

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by Smithalicious »

zitterbewegung wrote: post #43

I didn't realize that Reddit even recommends you content. And I can't tell the difference between before and after these recommendations are coming in. The blog post feels like one that Youtube made about their recommender system and how it improved but, their recommender system doesn't work. Reddit has been sort of this weird place where they face the issues that Digg and Twitter have and want to slowly transition i…

YouTube primarily recommends me videos that I've already seen

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by climb_stealth »

capableweb wrote: post #89
climb_stealth wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Am I prepared to get more of this recommended until the end of time?" I ask myself this question every time I watch a youtube video. A lot of them I watch with private browsing to avoid it. Though lately it feels like I'm getting stuff recommended despite the private browsing measure.

> Though lately it feels like I'm getting stuff recommended despite the private browsing measure Absolutely, some of the recommendations seems to be recommended based on IP. I don't watch anime but I have friends that do, sometimes after they visit my place, I start getting ads for manga and anime for a few days, until they figure out I'm not actually interested in it. I also browse stuff via Firefox Focus on my phon…

Hmmm, that makes me wonder whether it would be better to have a second account to watch those videos with. Then the video view would be tied to an account rather than anonymous through the IP address.

Basically in firefox do a "open in container tab" instead of "open link in private window".

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by HDMI_Cable »

dkdk8283 wrote: post #97
DecoPerson wrote: post #75

I once looked at the little notification tray on the new Reddit UI and saw a recommendation for a post. It piqued my interest, so I clicked it. It took me to the subreddit, not the specific post. I tried clicking different parts of the notification, same result every time. I tried scrolling down on the subreddit (in the new UI, ugh) and did not the find the post after thirty posts or so. I tried to copy the title fro…

I have a bookmarklet to enable select. There is no valid use case for disabling this.

Visualizing SEP, and just dragging around text in general, is the only use case I can think of.

https://www.visualizingsep.com/#/entries/vico/ <- It's very annoying to drag around the topics.

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