- Feb 2023
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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TikTok offers an online resource center for creators seeking to learn more about its recommendation systems, and has opened multiple transparency and accountability centers where guests can learn how the app’s algorithm operates.
There seems to be a number of issues with the positive and negative feedback systems these social media companies are trying to create. What are they really measuring? The either aren't measuring well or aren't designing well (or both?)...
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- Sep 2022
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Can the quality of a college be ranked by a single number, the way critics rate movies with stars?
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- Nov 2021
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
- Mar 2021
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rachelcoldicutt.medium.com rachelcoldicutt.medium.com
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according to Hao, Mark Zuckerberg wants to increase the number of people who log into Facebook six days a week. I’m not going to get into whether this is good or bad here, but it certainly shows that what you are doing, and how you are doing it, is very important to Facebook.
Can we leverage these data points to follow a movement like Meatless Monday to encourage people to not use Facebook two days a week to cause this data analysis to crash?
Anything that is measured can be gamed. But there's also the issue of a moving target because Facebook will change it's target which then means the community activism will need to change it's target as well. (This may be fine if the point is community engagement and education as the overall mission, in which case the changing target continually engages people and brings in new people to consider what is happening and why.)
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- Nov 2019
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news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
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Can I ask people to upvote my submission? No. Users should vote for a story because they personally find it intellectually interesting, not because someone has content to promote.
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