I'm noticing folks leaving this place or 'taking a break'. Like it's noticeable. I'm not really sure what has been going on here the last few days, it's fragmented and confusing. I don't actually know what I need to do to fix this problem.
You are allowed to have disagreements here and there are tools for you to curate your experience here. What is going wrong this last couple of days?
Help me help us solve the problem. Whatever it is.
@th3j35t3r
You probably have an emergent situation underway or still ongoing.
That means a few factors are in confluence.
I think one is the time of year. Many are on vacation or swamped with getting kids back to school or college.
Nevertheless, maybe its time to design a "sentiment" dial on a profile? Those that are more rambunctious are filtered out by those that set their threshold high. Then allow users to see who/what was filtered out so they know the consequences.
Sounds a bit algorithm-y. Personally, I want to filter out individuals - not entire swaths.
@Agatha @th3j35t3r
Yes, definitely an algorithm.
But J needs solutions that scale using tech and not just more time from J.
It would report what was filtered if you want to see that.
If you don't like how it's working, then just don't use it.
Maybe there is an even better idea besides hiring an army of analysts?
And that'll be up to him. But one of the main draws of CoSo - literally a staple - is no algorithms. There are many reasons why companies use them, or unpaid moderators like on Reddit (which is a whole other issue with pros and cons), but if that door is opened many of us who find this place a welcome refuge from typical SM will flee. And, no, that's not any kind of threat. I'm not telling him what to do. It'd simply be a consequence. But, it's his baby at the end of the day.
@Agatha @jurban @th3j35t3r
I will chime in only to say I would be very much against a sentiment or any kind of meter applied to a profile. Bouzy try that whole thing and it was wildly inconsistent.
I also firmly believe that we need to learn to talk to each other as humans, to be open-minded, and look past labels. Applying such a thing on profiles would go directly counter to that line of thinking.
Also as @jurban referenced generalizations:
While I didn't see the most recent part of this, I saw the beginnings of it and one group in this conversation clearly felt they were being unfairly gathered under some negative generalizations. So we definitely don't want anything that would further that, be it real or perceived.
This isn't the first time we've had a significant Exodus of good people all because folks struggle to communicate with compassion and/or well intentioned discourse gets taken the wrong way.
@voltronic @jurban @Agatha @th3j35t3r yes 💯difficult to to discuss emotionally charged issues like these in the absence of non verbal communication - very easy to misinterpret things and hard to bring the temp down if things get jangly...these issues are difficult to talk about in most any forum.