| Is that what it's about? > identify quality authors and filter out obnoxious commenters > not about hiding writers you disagree with > It's also fun to read the writers you disagree with [But] > to reinforce your opinion of them. [Did you misspeak here?] > this reduces the time I spent on Hacker News > find the good stuff based on people you trust This is very confused. * Do we want to avoid ideas that we disagree with? * Do we want to avoid authors we've labelled as annoying? (This is about meta-level bad ideas, about how to interact.) * Do we want to avoid meta-level ideas that we disagree with? * What if your friends disagree about who their friends and enemies are? * What it they don't disagree, isn't that creepy? Echo chamber much? * Is it right to pre-empt your own interest by labelling material before reading it? I don't know! Seems to me that rational pre-filtering should be along subtle, personal, ever-changing lines, and you should constantly be deciding on the spot based on complex information including your current mood and dyspepsia. How should interest work? You may start reading a thing and decide "this is not for me" (or "this is a troll or a bot"). Or with a tool like this one you may carry out the same process faster, and more crudely, using less information and less serendipity. So you're encouraging people to be in a rush and make more superficial choices instead of mining for the gold. On the other hand, maybe they are in a rush and need to be like that. |