[zyfo]

Am I the only one who thinks this whole sharing business has gone a bit too far?

Honestly, how many people would say that finding content is one of their biggest problems today?

It's easy to think all you need is more optimized/better content while what you really need in fact is probably something of the following:

- think about something

- focus your attention

- get to work

- get in touch with other people

[c1sc0]

Finding good content is a problem for me in the sense that content consumption has become a new form of entertainment. So if you don't entirely dismiss entertainment, then, yes, finding good content I will enjoy and maybe learn something from is a problem to me. The main issue I see here is that the incentives in social networks are all wrong: we're being prodded into over-sharing because that's where the money is. As a result of that we're drowning in a shit-stream of content.

[ryaf]

Sparks in Google+ seem like a step in the right direction, but it seems lacking. Though I cannot pinpoint exactly how I would improve it.

[glanch]

Imagine Facebook with this rule: when a user posts content, that content is rated by popularity (number of likes/shares/comments). Every user has a popularity score. Users can opt in to being ranked on a public popularity list in, let's say, up to 3 categories like Sports, Tech, Music, Politics, etc. Any FB user can check out the "top 50" lists for topics they're interested in, and subscribe/friend/follow people that are on those lists.

[derefr]

Why are you asking me to imagine Facebook with the rule that it's Reddit and not Facebook?

[c1sc0]

So you're basically saying that the solution to our content quality problem is turning it into a popularity contest?

[glanch]

Categorized popularity. If a user in interested in a topic, they would have the ability to find the prominent voices related to that topic.