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Re: Emotional headlines have an impact regardless of the credibility of the source

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Post by gryfft » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 6:44 PM UTC

CraigJPerry wrote: post #45

gryfft wrote: post #18

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I use the same rubric but go one step further and tell YouTube not to recommend any videos from that channel.

Is that possible? There's a channel i just don't want to see. Ever. I've blocked the channel but it regularly shows up in recommendations. I actually have a todo item to see if i can't force the issue with a uBlock Origin rule.

When you click the three dots, it's the second option from the bottom.[1] It's not perfect, but I feel that eliminating entire channels at a time from my recommendations is a proportionate response to the engagement-maximization algorithm.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/JfYYTSk.png

Re: Emotional headlines have an impact regardless of the credibility of the source

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Post by jaredsohn » Fri, Jan 01, 2021, 9:37 AM UTC

frongpik wrote: post #65

ReactiveJelly wrote: post #56

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Like a web of trust, but for link recommendations? Maybe it could work by changing the incentives. If you had a magical perfect AI that was loyal to you and ran on your PC, it would always act in your interest - Spidering the web and returning interesting things based on your feedback. Whereas the current model is, none of this stuff is self-hosted, it has to run on Somebody Else's Computer. SEC costs money to run, s…

My idea is a lot simpler and doesn't need any ML. Think of it as the linkedin feed: if you upvote a post, it'll be shown to your contacts, but if you upvote too much junk posts, your contacts will unsubscribe. This idea is relatively trivial to implement as an alternative UI of HN. That site would show the very same html, but will hack the upvote and downvote buttons. You upvote to subscribe to someone and downvote t…

I think there would need to be a browser extension as well to detect the upvotes/downvotes.

Re: Emotional headlines have an impact regardless of the credibility of the source

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Post by tonyedgecombe » Fri, Jan 01, 2021, 10:18 AM UTC

frongpik wrote: post #39

That's a big reason what makes HN successful: a blanket ban on emotional content. Edit. I've been thinking of an idea that for us knowledge sharing resembles neuron connections, based on my limited knowledge of that topic. Each of us watches a few channels of information and makes a choice to forward/retweet a piece of information so your subscribers would see it, ignore it or block a channel if it sends you bogus da…

I used to think that until Covid came along. I've never hidden so many threads so quickly.