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@zinger
These are the vibes we should avoid imo Status games are a slippery slope and there are already a bunch of “social” apps available if people want to play them
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Stephan
@stephancill
feels more like it's a temporary band aid solution to a larger problem with surfacing new users in the feed
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Zinger ↑ is job hunting
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Yeah I think so too but I think there are also better solutions here (and I’m sure the Merkle team and others will continue to experiment)
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Stephan
@stephancill
i agree. curious to hear what your ideas are for better solutions automating the process of identifying new accounts that produce good content seems like a hard problem
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Lean into invites more given that most new users are invited by current users Allow new users to be boosted to their inviter’s graph and even explicitly show that connection across the UI to add credibility Invites — and even just follows — are great forms of vouches with some built-in degree of accountability
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Stephan
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i love the idea of leaning on invites + follow graphs more
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Varun Srinivasan
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we looked at this a while ago and.... boy, would you be unhappy if we started showing invited users by default. a lot of users are indiscriminate with their invites. so you have to get good at identifying the users that are good at inviting other good users, which of course you can only know if you know who the good users are to begin with. at which point, you're basically solving the "find good users" problem with extra steps.
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