▲ 1209 ▼ do not feed the trolls (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 week ago by anzo@programming.dev to c/memes@lemmy.world 232 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] huey_m@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago (1 child) Not sure arguing with them really does either. I think this was true in simple chronological message boards, but anything that boosts content due to engagement is just going to make it worse... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] grue@lemmy.world 1 point 6 days ago (1 child) To be clear, I'm writing from a Lemmy/Reddit/Slashdot perspective. Maybe on Mastodon/Twitter (or, dog forbid, Facebook) it's different, but I wouldn't know because I've never used that shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] huey_m@piefed.social 1 point 6 days ago (1 child) Pretty sure reddit uses some algorithmic stuff to push threads, no? If you jump all over a bullshit political post, for example, doesn't that help push it into 'hot' or whatever? (Honestly asking, been off reddit for years at this point). Lemmy/piefed/etc might be less prone to it though, that's fair, though I've so far run into less outright propagandistic stuff here so far... might've just been lucky on that front. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] grue@lemmy.world 1 point 5 days ago I was thinking more in terms of replying to the comments within threads, rather than the posts themselves. But yeah, I guess you've got a point that the number of comments under a post might influence its position in some types of feeds. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 point 6 days ago (1 child) To be clear, I'm writing from a Lemmy/Reddit/Slashdot perspective. Maybe on Mastodon/Twitter (or, dog forbid, Facebook) it's different, but I wouldn't know because I've never used that shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] huey_m@piefed.social 1 point 6 days ago (1 child) Pretty sure reddit uses some algorithmic stuff to push threads, no? If you jump all over a bullshit political post, for example, doesn't that help push it into 'hot' or whatever? (Honestly asking, been off reddit for years at this point). Lemmy/piefed/etc might be less prone to it though, that's fair, though I've so far run into less outright propagandistic stuff here so far... might've just been lucky on that front. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] grue@lemmy.world 1 point 5 days ago I was thinking more in terms of replying to the comments within threads, rather than the posts themselves. But yeah, I guess you've got a point that the number of comments under a post might influence its position in some types of feeds. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] huey_m@piefed.social 1 point 6 days ago (1 child) Pretty sure reddit uses some algorithmic stuff to push threads, no? If you jump all over a bullshit political post, for example, doesn't that help push it into 'hot' or whatever? (Honestly asking, been off reddit for years at this point). Lemmy/piefed/etc might be less prone to it though, that's fair, though I've so far run into less outright propagandistic stuff here so far... might've just been lucky on that front. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] grue@lemmy.world 1 point 5 days ago I was thinking more in terms of replying to the comments within threads, rather than the posts themselves. But yeah, I guess you've got a point that the number of comments under a post might influence its position in some types of feeds. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 point 5 days ago I was thinking more in terms of replying to the comments within threads, rather than the posts themselves. But yeah, I guess you've got a point that the number of comments under a post might influence its position in some types of feeds. permalink fedilink source parent
