“making the feed less bad in a specific way” is (I expect) only going to be a patch, compared to “make the feed good”.
In different words: If we figure out what we want to optimize the feed for, we won’t have to patch each instance of the feed not optimizing for that.
As a metaphor: I think it’s a good idea to consider what I DO want in a job instead of looking for a job that doesn’t have the 3 features that I didn’t enjoy previously.
As an extreme example that I don’t actually endorse, I’m writing it to help me point at a more general direction of ideas: Every day, pick 10 users and show them the feed (without any upvotes? without seeing the name of whoever posted it?), and ask them to vote for “this helped me personally” and for “I want more people in the community to read this post”. Hopefully “don’t show the daily drama to everyone” will be only one of the problems that are implicitly solved by running something like this, many other problems will be wiped out before you even notice they exist, let alone spend months of your time trying to solve each one of them. [reminder: I wouldn’t actually do this]
Am I making any sense? Seems like I write more and more lines but I’m not sure if it’s any better.
Reminder: I’m not disagreeing with you. This seems to be such a big recurring pain point that I do think it’s worth attention, and I think it’s kind of amazing/insane that we have you to do something about it
Hey!
Without disagreeing, I’d like to suggest:
“making the feed less bad in a specific way” is (I expect) only going to be a patch, compared to “make the feed good”.
In different words: If we figure out what we want to optimize the feed for, we won’t have to patch each instance of the feed not optimizing for that.
As a metaphor: I think it’s a good idea to consider what I DO want in a job instead of looking for a job that doesn’t have the 3 features that I didn’t enjoy previously.
As an extreme example that I don’t actually endorse, I’m writing it to help me point at a more general direction of ideas: Every day, pick 10 users and show them the feed (without any upvotes? without seeing the name of whoever posted it?), and ask them to vote for “this helped me personally” and for “I want more people in the community to read this post”. Hopefully “don’t show the daily drama to everyone” will be only one of the problems that are implicitly solved by running something like this, many other problems will be wiped out before you even notice they exist, let alone spend months of your time trying to solve each one of them. [reminder: I wouldn’t actually do this]
Am I making any sense? Seems like I write more and more lines but I’m not sure if it’s any better.
Reminder: I’m not disagreeing with you. This seems to be such a big recurring pain point that I do think it’s worth attention, and I think it’s kind of amazing/insane that we have you to do something about it