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>>codetr+(OP)
Congrats Dang, you have done a wonderful job so far and moderate one of the most fantastic online communities out there. I am sure most of the job feels somewhat thankless but I want to let you know I(and many many other users on this site) appreciate your hard work and dedication.

>>subsub+2k
If by “finest” you mean a Reddit mob mentality for tech, then yes I completely agree with this statement.

>>codedd+Vw
What do you think we could do differently? Serious question.

I don't like the mob thing either but it's how large group dynamics on the internet work (by default). We try to mitigate it where we can but there's not a lot of knowledge about how to do that.

>>dang+HC
Downweight posts and comments based on the frequency and positive sentiment. IE things that are posted often and with high positive comments should bubble to the top less often.

>>yCombL+1E
Other people want us to downweight negative sentiment. I wonder what happens if you downweight all the sentiments.

>>dang+CE
Well my intuition is topics with high negative sentiment won't saturate the front page for long periods of time, unlike topics with high positive sentiment. The latest thing is obviously AI and chatGPT. I'm interested in both, but if there was an increasing downweight based on how long it is popular, and how popular it is, they would still show up on the front page, but not quite so frequently.

>>yCombL+nF
I agree with you that popularity is a diminishing curve and at some point becomes annoying. With the current AI tsunami, we're well past that point for some people, but not others.

From an admin point of view it's tricky because (unless I'm high on koolaid?) this is a major technical development, so genuine advances are happening all at once. Too many for me to keep up with.