alt Hacker NewsHow would you square that with a site like Hacker News, which has algorithms for showing user-submitted links and user-generated comments?
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qotgalaxy • today at 2:10 AM
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qotgalaxy • today at 2:14 AM
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How would you square that with a site like Hacker News, which has algorithms for showing user-submitted links and user-generated comments?
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Listing content alphabetically or chronologically is technically an "algorithm" too. What I'm specifically challenging here is the personalized algorithm designed to keep individual users on the platform based off a user profile influenced by countless active and passive choices the user has made over time. The type of HN algorithm that serves the same content to every user based off global behavior is fine in my book because it is both less exploitative of the user base and a reflection of that user base's proactive decisions in upvoting/downvoting content.