Oh. This exactly equivalent to what I suggested in Occlumency.
So to affect ordinal rankings, you need to deal with information cascades in real-time.
One way to do this could be to hide authorship and karma for 24 hours (or something) after the post has been published. Readers are now spread more evenly across day-one posts, which means that on day two, their relative karmas are more indicative of true conversion rates and less influenced by randomness and author popularity. So even if you let everything run as normal thenceforth, the information cascades would start on initial conditions that better reflect true conversion rates.
People seem to be converging on this as a suggestion, so I definitely think it would be good to test run it for a while. I’m not optimistic about it being net positive, however, but I think testing it could be usefwl.
Honestly, I’m pessimistic about the value of the frontpage, and I prefer searching for things to read by browsing tags.
Oh. This exactly equivalent to what I suggested in Occlumency.
People seem to be converging on this as a suggestion, so I definitely think it would be good to test run it for a while. I’m not optimistic about it being net positive, however, but I think testing it could be usefwl.
Honestly, I’m pessimistic about the value of the frontpage, and I prefer searching for things to read by browsing tags.