cross-posted from: !sublinks_support@discuss.online
Ever noticed how people online will jump through hoops, climb mountains, and even summon the powers of ancient memes just to earn some fake digital points? It’s a wild world out there in the realm of social media, where karma reigns supreme and gamification is the name of the game.
But what if we could harness this insatiable thirst for validation and turn it into something truly magnificent? Imagine a social media platform where an army of monkeys tirelessly tags every post with precision and dedication, all in the pursuit of those elusive internet points.
Reddit uses this strategy to increase their content quantity, while Stack Overflow employs it for moderation and quality control. The power of gamification and leaderboards has been proven time and time again to motivate users to contribute more and better.
With a leaderboard showcasing the top users per day, week, month, and year, the competition would be fierce. Who wouldn’t want to be crowned the Tagging Champion of the Month or the Sultan of Sorting? The drive for recognition combined with the power of gamification could revolutionize content curation as we know it.
And the benefits? Oh, they’re endless! Imagine a social media landscape where every piece of content is perfectly tagged, allowing users to navigate without fear of stumbling upon triggering or phobia-inducing material. This proactive approach can help users avoid inadvertently coming across content that triggers phobias, traumatic events, or other sensitive topics.
It’s like a digital safe haven where you can frolic through memes and cat videos without a care in the world. So next time you see someone going to great lengths for those fake internet points, just remember - they might just be part of the Great Monkey Tagging Army, working tirelessly to make your online experience safer and more enjoyable. Embrace the madness, my friends, for in the chaos lies true innovation!
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This is a terrible idea. Stack Overflow is an example of what not to do
I’ve based the idea on Discourse which has very good moderation. I don’t know why everyone is talking about StackExchange, did I mention it anywhere?
Stack Overflow employs it for moderation and quality control.
Ive had almost every question ive ever posted on stack overflow sites locked claiming the question is answered elsewhere even though the question they point to is not the same as mine. Its so frustrating posting on those sites cuz everyone claims i should do what im asking some other convoluted way or that the question is the same as others which are outdated or completely irrelevant.
Yeah, and the FOSS alternative Codidact isn’t any better. What’s the point of asking for solutions for bugs when even an LLM can solve that already? I want proper solutions to actual problems so that I can find everything in there, not just troubleshooting bugs.
Or just use proof of work? I shouldn’t have to climb mountains to participate in discussions online
How would that work?
I don’t know how that works. Why would have to do anything to participate in the discussions? The curation can be done by whoever wants to do it.
I like it.
Tags solve a few problems:
- they add context to posts and we all want a semantic web
- they would allow people to find posts and content across the Fediverse where, despite ActivityPub) it can be difficult finding material between different services. One click of a tag and we can see posts on, cfir example, Stonehenge on Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, BookWyrm, etc or multi-tag to see only selfies taken there or news or scientific articled, etc.
Most people would just do this anyway if available (I always run fine-grained categorisation where available) but gamify it you get a lot better coverage, especially if people can tag other people’s posts, and the coverage would be a lot more comprehensive.
Fediseer would seem like a good hub for this but there’s nothing stopping a FediTag or FediHub springing up or you could federate it, so there’d be lots of instances - lemmy.world could run tag.lemmy.world and all the tags on l.w would point to it. It may even be possible for various services to bundle this in, so all tags are “local” and your, for example, l.w account gives you an account on the l.w FediTag instance so you can follow them, get notifications of new posts, etc.
Sorry, just thinking outloud but I like it even more.
Gamifying the editing of other people’s posts and editing semantics of content after-the-fact
Yeahhhhhh no, I think you just suggested StackOverflow without taking even a look at the recent or not recent discussions on how it behaves (eg.: the moderator strike) or why.
I think there are ways this could be kept in check, but basically you’d be providing an incentive towards just going around and adding tags for content nilly-willy, potentially leading to something very similar to SO’s “closed as duplicate” (duplicate is on a completely different language / software stack / problem domain) issue.
So a corporate owned internet = good and we should promote and be happy with it . Maybe try unpopular opinion OP atleast on lemmy it is unpopular.
My post was meant lightheartedly about gamifying content tagging, not seriously advocating for increased corporate control of the internet.
Then post it on a lighthearted sub not here. If you post it on a serious sub it will be taken seriously.
Where is the rule that says this is a serious sub? You are just making things up. Get the stick out of your ass. Any sub can have lighthearted posts unless they state otherwise.
A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussions
Accept you are wrong and fuck off kid.
Go fuck yourself already. And no I’m not wrong you just can’t read. Those discussions you mention don’t need to be however you want them to be.
Now cry
Why would I cry, shithead? You are just an annoying internet rando.
Thats actually pretty cool. It needs to be insanely well engineered so you dont get trolls to „moderate“ for points and throw out every person on the platform. Also, the hivemind needs to be kept in check so group think is not as brutal.
Some sort of appeal process to deal with human bias and punish moderators abusing power and remove their privileges would help address concerns about potential troll moderators.
