How to avoid echo chambers: Stop sorting comments by popularity.
submitted 3 years ago * by uwubunny from (self.SaidIt)
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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
Yeah but in a way it just changes the brigading tactics from fake upvotes to fake comments, to ensure the threads they want stay at the top. In the end it can still be gamed the same way
[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
No doubt, however - those sorts of forums can't really scale to tens of thousands of active users. It just ends up being a confusing blend of things constantly vanishing off page 1. As a result of the diminished number of users forum sliding efforts were generally easy to spot and less successful.
Sliding is still very much a thing on image-boards.
use the following search parameters to narrow your results:
e.g. sub:pics site:imgur.com dog
sub:pics site:imgur.com dog
advanced search: by author, sub...
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