Online community and platform feedback loops (instant reactions, low cognitive cost, shareability) create a structural advantage for short, quickly produced 'takes' over slow, researched posts. That incentive tilt changes what contributors choose to produce and what readers learn, even on communities that value careful thought.
— If true broadly, it explains a durable erosion in public epistemic quality and suggests that any reforms to civic discussion must correct feedback incentives (UX, ranking, reward structures) rather than just exhort better behavior.
Paul Bloom
2025.12.01
90% relevant
Bloom’s taxonomy of five poster types pinpoints the same incentive problem: platform feedback favours certain short, attention‑maximizing signals but can misrepresent sentiment in small, tight communities (the 'nasty people in a small world' case). That directly connects to the existing idea that platform feedback loops bias toward quick, viral takes rather than nuanced contributions.
eukaryote
2025.11.30
100% relevant
LessWrong post describing karma counts and commenter anecdotes where low‑effort posts outperformed high‑effort essays on the same platform.
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