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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/494473

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can see that clearly with both Twitter and reddit. There is no worse feeling than spending time to write something with thought only to not have anyone interact with these posts at all, while tired one-liner and ragebait gets a ton of likes and comments.

However, Lemmy's algorithm doesn't really punish writing long form contents the same way reddit does from my experience, so I feel more free to take a little bit longer to write out my thoughts here compared to elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One way I thought of to encourage long form content and high quality, is to limit the number of short form content from users.

I imagined every week users would be granted 14 comments that are limited to 250 characters and unlimited long form content. You could also grant more short form comments with every long form comment or with every new oc post.

The only issue would be that long form does not mean high quality and with chatgpt it'll be easy to create long form posts. Maybe an AI system that evaluates the quality of the post could work but then gaming the system would happen.

Just a thought I had, the numbers about the length and amount of posts could be optimized or use an AI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I like that you're describing an anti-Twitter, where people have to express themselves in over 250 characters, rather than under 140 or 280.