Product

People don’t want to see uninteresting replies and casts.

Best way to solve for that is weight historical inbound engagement for a user, i.e. PageRank-like score for every user.

Disproportionally hurts new accounts. Making it harder to get started.

This is fundamentally caused by the lack of negative signal in the Twitter model.

Try giving users the equivalent of a downvote button 

Icon proposal: 🙄

The only problem is externality pricing.

Building https://negationgame.com

Proposed the downvote button multiple times and people did not like the idea!

what about a "swipe cast away" action that bumps a cast from your feed. doesn't have to be displayed on the cast itself and bonus is that it could be used for personalization e.g. "predict likelihood cast x will be hidden by user y". I think low friction of the action would make people use it and seems high-ish signal

Data scientist. Interested in most of the kinds of things that job implies, among others.