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 I don't know... I mean, maybe to some degree it could work but it could also lead to some twisted incentives & strange stuff trending when attention seekers start stirring controversy intentionally for the sake of trending... or when someone decides to battle trolls. 😂 


 
 Or they could create stooge bots to reply to.  
 Yeah, that too. 
 Doeant IG have all this figured out? Cant we just send in an undercover from nostr 👀😂 
 There must be an opensats budget for this 
 I nominate you 😂🤣 
 I would totally love to do that omg 🤣 
 Whoa! We found a divergence because I would hate that! 😂 Be sure to report this to @SGT.FISH  
 Or it is a planned divergence for appearances 🧐 mwahahaha   
 😂 I have no idea... I deleted that one many moons ago but from what I see & hear, unlikely. 
 We already have that. 😂

The only difference would be that they would have to reply to the bots to maximize their metric, rather than ignoring them. 
 Well this was my one idea. Beyond this, I will never speak of it again lmao. Back to regularly scheduled here is my simple, happy life posts 🫡😂 
 No! I mean... those too... but ideas need to be explored! It's just what came to my mind & my opinion/insight is just one of many around here 
 Oh, I didnt take your commemt any negative way. I truly just dont personally care about all the metrics...they dont affect my day to day life. But I thought Laeserin had a point about how they affect incoming npubs. So I had a thought and posted it, but I prefer to keep my attention elsewhere. I will def post if I have another thought on the matter but I prob wont 😂  
 I mostly agree with @Brisket but the engagement/ trend thing does affect newcomers so for that reason I care 
 This note is more trending 😆 
 It's tricky. The chances of someone with a larger presence responding to or liking a reply is already exponentially higher than any other social & likely temporary. Helping new, active users (as in noters, not lurkers) to understand that community building means participation is the real hurdle, or at least that's how I see it.  
 Makes sense 🫂💜 maybe there should be a community builder list for npubs who we know will interact w and help newcomers 
 Something like that would be cool. I think @ManiMe 's project will be offering something similar. Trending, highlights, etc definitely have their place as far as joining & retention go. Prepopulated follow lists might not be the best longterm idea but it fixed the empty feed issue for the time, so maybe that will graduate into a suggestion list eventually. Idk... my ability to comprehend far outstrips my ability to do so I'm basically useless 😂 

 
 You and me both😂 But we can cheer them on and say what they are working on is so cool! 
 #goteam 🎉😂 
 Yes! I dont even need an opensats budget for this, will cheerlead fo' free!😂 
 You both, and me too 😂🤛 
 Hells yeah🤜 We are now known as The Unoffendables and unite our powers! Lol 
 There are no lines we can’t cross! 
 It's not that I'm edgy, I'm just terrible at understanding boundaries 😂🤣 
 😂🤣😂 what is a boundary? 🫨 
 I’m never bothered, so I just think everyone else shouldn’t be either 🤷‍♂️ 
 You're so coool 😂🫂 
 Wife disagrees. She says I’m just oblivious. 
 Same thing 
 😂 I’ll tell her 
 🍀 
 Your wife is the coolest 😎😇 
 She is…..one day she’ll wake up 😜 
 Just keep having adorable babies and dancing with them to sweet songs while you look at her  
 You remembered the secret sauce! 
 I have this sometimes obnoxious file storage system in my brain. But it alao remembers happy things like this 😁 
 Feature 
 🤣 *golf clap* 
 It’s a work in progress. 💜
nostrmeet.me 
 That's something I think that has been done poorly and incentivises pretty shady BS (like what primal does with the default file list, IMO).  
 *phew* 🫂 😂
 
 I am so unlikely to be offended so do not worry 😂🫂  
 I, too,  am unoffendable... that totally undoes yesterday's undoing 😂🤙 
 @SGT.FISH gonna be not at all surprised 😂 
 I can pretend to be for peace reasons  
 You may think your thoughts you thunk. Vetting them in "public" is brave and generally a good thing. 

I like your regular notes, but, I also like out of the ordinary things that real people care to show with others. So, don't hold back, if you don't want to.  
 We already count replies. 
 This would add counting replies to replies. 
 I think we were referring to how those numbers are weighed in trending feeds. Maybe I was mistaken.  
 Yeah, they include the count of the replies in the feed algos. 
 *phew* thought maybe I was wandering off into the weeds there for a minute 😂 
 Yes, exactly. Replies to replies signals true engagement. A back and forth.  
 Are we going to pretend like a bit of controversy isn't fun? 😂

The Internet actually has too little controversy and too many personal attacks, in my opinion, so everyone watches morbid news videos and hardcore porn, to get their hindbrain excitement fix, instead of watching a debate on the ethics of aloof elitism or the pros and cons of various hard currencies.

Most new human knowledge is gained to win the upper hand in a debate or solve some problem people told you couldn't be solved. Lack of controversy causes our brains to atrophy and stymies innovation.

I'm here for the intellectual flight club that is going to delay the onset of dementia. 
 An Ode to the Uncomfortable People

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 Another positive is that controversy is taxing and therefore tiring. After I have a good, hard debate, I'm literally wiped out and I'm like,

Okay, that was enough Internet for today. Sheesh. Let me go cook dinner and go for a walk. 
 Not joking about dementia. I'm in that age where the people who are intellectually lazy have brains that slowly begin to rot, if they don't use them hard enough.

I can literally see it happening, on their faces, as they lose expressive mimic. *shudder* 
 "so everyone watches morbid news videos and hardcore porn"

Speak for yourself! 
 😂 
 I’m not sure how without iron
😙 
 Not at all. There's a big difference between organic debate & manufactured controversy. The latter serves no purpose in furthering consciousness & connection.