[marbletiles]

I have a perfectly lovely set of friends, who often post lovely things.

But when I think back to all the “long comments” and “spark conversation” type posts, they’re not lovely. They are politics or other things that spark FB’s equivalent of a flame war.

So my fear is that using those things to indicate these posts should be more prominent is going to be a tricky thing for them to get right.

Getting a computer to decide between “has lots of comments because it’s a fight” and “has lots of comments because it’s useful and interesting” is an interesting challenge.

[kartickv]

A "Was that worth it?" button might help distinguish clickbait or angerbait from genuinely worthwhile and fulfilling information. Say you participated in a conversation on FB. When the conversation ends, you might get a notification from FB the next time to log in asking you whether it was good.

Or a news site could have a Was it worth it? button at the end of each story, to help identify clickbait or otherwise low-quality articles. Rather than measuring how many page views each journalist drives, they might measure how many satisfied readers that article had, and reward journalists who write high-quality articles.

[JasonFruit]

That is a good statement of the problem. It seems like I've read about some pretty effective tone analysis for English, at least, that might be helpful.