I never try to write an AAQC, and I don't think anyone else should. It results in goodharting. Look what the Karma system did to Reddit!
Things should not even be filtered or ordered by "quality" to begin with, all that does is create feedback loops in which popular things grow more popular and less popular things get no attention. This makes the first few votes determine the fate of any posted content. This in turn leads to more gaming of the system - "Post at XX:XX in Y timezone in order to get the most popular posts!", etc. Look at what's "viral" in the world, and tell me how well popularity actually correlates with quality (if you disagree with this argument, tell me why you're writing on TM and not on Reddit)
Enough of the internet already follows a power-law distribution in which 90% of everything is shit, and in which the "real gems" are hidden in the tails which algoritms are trying to hide from you.
I don't think you meant any harm making this post, and I even think you're correct that it will work, but the whole philosophy behind this sort of 'optimization' simply doesn't work, and it has become one of humanities many errors.
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I never try to write an AAQC, and I don't think anyone else should. It results in goodharting. Look what the Karma system did to Reddit!
Things should not even be filtered or ordered by "quality" to begin with, all that does is create feedback loops in which popular things grow more popular and less popular things get no attention. This makes the first few votes determine the fate of any posted content. This in turn leads to more gaming of the system - "Post at XX:XX in Y timezone in order to get the most popular posts!", etc. Look at what's "viral" in the world, and tell me how well popularity actually correlates with quality (if you disagree with this argument, tell me why you're writing on TM and not on Reddit)
Enough of the internet already follows a power-law distribution in which 90% of everything is shit, and in which the "real gems" are hidden in the tails which algoritms are trying to hide from you.
I don't think you meant any harm making this post, and I even think you're correct that it will work, but the whole philosophy behind this sort of 'optimization' simply doesn't work, and it has become one of humanities many errors.
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