Announcing The End Of Blind Link Sharing

http://blog.favo.rs/2011/05/end-of-blind-link-sharing/

by reteltech • 15 years ago

14 10 15 years ago

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rangstrom2• 15 years ago

Cool idea.

peterglatte2• 15 years ago

I don't know. I'm not sure how broadly this would be used. Why wouldn't I just post something to HN or Reddit and get way more eyeballs that way?

rangstrom2• 15 years ago

I don't think it would stop you from posting on HN or Reddit. I think this is designed to accelerate the sharing of your links through social media. The advantage of that is that a personal referral has more impact than a blind post on HN. Of course, The devil is in the details. How it's executed will make all the difference.

geon• 15 years ago

That will suck when their server is down. Also, what are the privacy implications of this?

reteltech• 15 years ago

Depends on whether or not it is opt-in for all parties. If it is, then it is up to the participants.

mtogo• 15 years ago

I'm so sick of shit like this. Can't wait until it comes out so i can make a tool to break it.

arst829• 15 years ago

Really?

peterglatte2• 15 years ago

The system will probably be child's play to game, but I'm not sure what's the point of gaming it or even using it in the first place.

throwaway32• 15 years ago

the idea that personal connections between people should be used to market products is tasteless.

ChuckMcM• 15 years ago

Sometimes I wonder if people take classes in game theory just so they can 'invent' new web services.

Snarky comment "Let's end double blind scientific testing so you can know which of your test subjects really have the cure and which have the placebo!"

Perhaps less snarky comment. When you are looking to 'improve' a system, ask yourself what knowledge you 'know' and what you 'derive' and then ask yourself if more 'knowing' would affect the quality of what you 'derive.'

It would be great to know that some folks in your social graph are more influential than others. However knowing that, and steering more information through them, will change their position in your social graph (sometimes it will instantly convert them from very influential to not forwarding anything you send to them). Its a classic dilemma where more knowledge changes the behavior of the actors in the system which then changes the derived knowledge etc etc. You get a 'game' (at least for the folks who are inclined that way) and like moths to the flame they will start tweaking to optimize. And the optimizations may spiral out of control leading to bigger and more overt tweaks which then can cause the whole system to implode.

Sometimes not knowing is better.

Announcing The End Of Blind Link Sharing

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