Oddbean new post about login | logout They could simply create a trending list that measures human interaction, so that people could jump into lively discussions. That would solve the problem of clicking on something "trending" and having it be a thread where nobody responds to your reply. Sometimes the original note poster isn't even "here". So it's just like they throw a bone and everyone shows up to squabble over it, but it's not a real discussion and the replies are dull and flat.
I tried to make a group/community to help with his obvious lack called #discuss - made to highlight posts of interest but aren't by the people who are promoted or the 'inner circle jerk' or whatever you want to call it lol. But communities / groups are somewhat defunct and fiddly. I wonder how you ould automate it, cos obviously this could easily be gamed, and would also highlight posts of no interest but with lots of replies. (Could be eg a word count? I don't know + some element of WoT? ... I don't know)
You can measure human emotion and engagement with simple patterns. You just have to trace the pattern of the replies, to see how flat the structure is, how many people are involved in the different levels of the structure, and how grammatically complex and diverse the replies are. GM - GM - GM - GM - GM - GM - GM - GM - GM - GM - GM - GM - GM Groundbreaking topic - Complex note from npub 1 -- Complex response to npub 1 from npub 2 - Complex response from npub 1 from npub 3 - Complex note from npub 4 - Complex note from npub 1 -- Complex response to npub 1 from npub 2 - Complex response from npub 1 from npub 3 - Complex note from npub 4 - Complex note from npub 1 -- Complex response to npub 1 from npub 2 - Complex response from npub 1 from npub 3 - Complex note from npub 4
Yes, I think you are right. By which I mean, I have no clue how automation / detection works in reality, but it sounds like you know what you're talking about. Sounds like you could be capable of making some sort of interesting discussion / post highlighter bot? 🤔 I would like to see primal replace their sidebar with something like this.
I don't think they understand the math enough to do that. They've tried to mimic the effect with time-frames (1-hour, 2-hour, etc.), but that often is just a reflection of active time zones, rather than interesting discussion. Europeans tend to trend until Americans wake up and drown us out.
The reason why the first note is obviously going to be a boring read is clear: nobody expects it to contain interesting infomation in the replies, so nobody opens the replies, they just respond with their own GM from their feed, or zap, and move on. You want to highlight the notes where people have opened it up and started chatting.