How to avoid echo chambers: Stop sorting comments by popularity.
submitted 3 years ago * by uwubunny from (self.SaidIt)
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[–]Papitas 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
How about random sorting, then? That would kind of iron out those kind of biases.
[–]uwubunny[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
Has anyone built a forum with a random or stochastic sort order? Plus, it's not clear to me how it would work in a threaded conversation.
It's about incentives. The reason I'm replying to you is that I believe that people will read it - chasing the dopamine hit of getting interaction, upvotes and replies, and ultimately the belief that I'm influencing other people by some absolutely tiny amount. If you think internet points are better, you should design to maximize the chance that I'll vote your comment up. If you think replies are better, design to maximize the chance that I'll reply.
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[–]Papitas 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun - (2 children)
[–]uwubunny[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - (0 children)