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I agree with everything you said, except the popularity ranking. The value of a content shall be in the content itself; popularity is only a flawed measurement. Worse, popularity has very strong positive feedback that contributes to the great polarization of opinions.



> The value of a content shall be in the content itself; popularity is only a flawed measurement.

Popularity is certainly a flawed measurement, but it's hard to come up with a scalable way to determine quality that isn't flawed in some way.

Instead of being flawed by encouraging people to get tons of backlinks, this is flawed by encouraging people to do stuff that gets lots of upvotes.

Very open to more ideas on how to measure quality.


"a scalable way to determine quality" is the billion dollar question so I have no idea. I'd just use plain old text index with no algorithmic ranking.




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