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The option to opt-out of the "For You" home page would be a good selling point for T&H and/or Gold T&H.

I really don't want to see that when I'm on the Farms, as this place is one of the few places on the Internet to escape from that sort of algorithm-based niggercattle horseshit. In fact I'd pay to not see it.
 
Nitro! dijo:
Terrible idea. Algorithmic content is for mongoloids. I know you want to grow the site but this is the equivalent of sticking a video of an infinite runner in the corner to attract the two-digits here.

It's also a massive privacy pet peeve of mine. Amazon and eBay do this and I hate it, just sell me shit, don't follow me around the store. For a site that prides itself on pseudo-anonymity this is backwards to have to collect, retain and collate more data. (Yes I know all access is logged at least in server logs.)
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ScatmansWorld dijo:
Honestly I'm concerned this could become a detriment to the site given that some courts are leaning towards "For You" algorithms being editorializing, and thus not having section 230 protection.
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Pee Cola dijo:
I really don't want to see that when I'm on the Farms, as this place is one of the few places on the Internet to escape from that sort of algorithm-based niggercattle horseshit. In fact I'd pay to not see it.
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Sooty Soot dijo:
I don't know about this, how would threads be chosen to be served up to the user? It'd require some sort of algorithm that studies threads that the user usually posts on to gauge their interests and store that data on the user's posting and reading habits, no? If that's the case, the potential "attack surface" for a subpoena against the user would get bigger.

Very subjective of me, but I also think it's against the very spirit of a forum. A year or two ago we had that big spat over people browsing the forum exclusively through sticker notifications and yet now we're giving people the option to browse the forum using an algorithm.
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I think it's a bad idea, for the reasons expressed in the quoted posts.

Having An Algorithm™ serve me slop on this site of all goddamned places would make me indescribably sad, even if said algorithm was actually well tuned and threw interesting shit at me. Algorithm feeds are some real lowercase-i-internet shit. Please. Not like this.

Please don't do this.
 
The biggest problem with algorithmic content is that it often doesn't show you stuff that you didn't know that you wanted to see, and gives you more of the same. So, I think the algorithm needs to cast something of a wide net or let the user determine how much the content can differ from what they normally look at. Alternatively, there could be a section specifically for content that you don't normally look at, while giving the user options to hard shut out certain threads or types of threads that they are absolutely sure they don't want to see.
 
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