Well, yes, basically. Here are some sugestions for exploration. I am not saying all of these are good ideas, and some of them conflict, but they’re things you could look at.
Don’t allow responses, by which I mean replying, retweeting, liking, forwarding, or whatever, until the base material has been up for something like a couple of hours. That includes responses to responses.
Adjust that delay so that a response that will be seen by few users can go through faster than a response that can be seen by many users… but there should always be at least a few minutes of delay for any response that is public, goes to a very large audience, or could be in any way be forwarded to become public or go to a very large audience.
Limit the number of responses a user can post per hour. Put heavier limits on responders who don’t generate a lot of original posts. Put still heavier limits on people with large followings.
Combine the above so that the delay or audience limits applied to you depend partly on how many posts or responses you generate in general.
Downrank prolific posters.
Downrank clusters of posters who frequently amplify one another, especially if nobody outside the clique seems to amplify them to the same degree.
Aggregate reposts of the same link or substantially the same text, and treat them as a single object that is show to each user at most once.
When you’re ranking material to display to a user, uprank material from accounts that user follows that have fewer other followers (like family and friends) over material from accounts that have more other followers (like politicians and media). On edit: heavily uprank posts from people who reciprocally follow the reader.
Provide downvotes, and have them actually sink material rather than upranking it as “controversial”.
Uprank long posts and maybe posts with multiple links… especially links to sources that do not usually appear together in other posts on the platform.
Uprank material that’s grammatically correct.
Eliminate avatars and emoji
Consider eliminating user identity and “following” in favor of an anonymous rumor mill.
You can provide overrides for those, but they should be things that have to be selected every time you visit the site. Better yet, provide access to all the content using an API, and allow users to use clients other than the official ones… including clients that aggregate different services.
I am suggesting applying things like that globally, to all users, not just users who have done something to get noticed.
Does 4chan have reply delays?
By the way, I think I’d like to amend that “response delay” thing to be “after the responding user first sees the material”, rather than “after the material goes up”.
Well, yes, basically. Here are some sugestions for exploration. I am not saying all of these are good ideas, and some of them conflict, but they’re things you could look at.
Don’t allow responses, by which I mean replying, retweeting, liking, forwarding, or whatever, until the base material has been up for something like a couple of hours. That includes responses to responses.
Adjust that delay so that a response that will be seen by few users can go through faster than a response that can be seen by many users… but there should always be at least a few minutes of delay for any response that is public, goes to a very large audience, or could be in any way be forwarded to become public or go to a very large audience.
Limit the number of responses a user can post per hour. Put heavier limits on responders who don’t generate a lot of original posts. Put still heavier limits on people with large followings.
Combine the above so that the delay or audience limits applied to you depend partly on how many posts or responses you generate in general.
Downrank prolific posters.
Downrank clusters of posters who frequently amplify one another, especially if nobody outside the clique seems to amplify them to the same degree.
Aggregate reposts of the same link or substantially the same text, and treat them as a single object that is show to each user at most once.
When you’re ranking material to display to a user, uprank material from accounts that user follows that have fewer other followers (like family and friends) over material from accounts that have more other followers (like politicians and media). On edit: heavily uprank posts from people who reciprocally follow the reader.
Provide downvotes, and have them actually sink material rather than upranking it as “controversial”.
Uprank long posts and maybe posts with multiple links… especially links to sources that do not usually appear together in other posts on the platform.
Uprank material that’s grammatically correct.
Eliminate avatars and emoji
Consider eliminating user identity and “following” in favor of an anonymous rumor mill.
You can provide overrides for those, but they should be things that have to be selected every time you visit the site. Better yet, provide access to all the content using an API, and allow users to use clients other than the official ones… including clients that aggregate different services.
Removed.
I am suggesting applying things like that globally, to all users, not just users who have done something to get noticed.
Does 4chan have reply delays?
By the way, I think I’d like to amend that “response delay” thing to be “after the responding user first sees the material”, rather than “after the material goes up”.