We are having a lot of debate after getting our first found of beta curator feedback around how much to show people 0WW (uncurated by humans) content. I think it’s useful for power curators (moseman, Mike Mraz, etc) but less so for others. But there are gems there, and I’m personally finding that the 0WW but high %match (for me above ~88% AI match) stuff is full of gems currently. So we are theorizing that we should hide the 0WW low %match stuff by default, and perhaps add a filter so you’d still have a way to see it all. Curious how you all are finding it?
For #1 we are working on a new design that elevates the “% match” score. Did you try clicking on that yet - it’s pretty cool IMO.
For #2 I’m curious what we could do? Or is that wrapped up with #1?
#3 is the heart of my OP - for instance imagine we put a floor filter at 85% (everyones account has a slightly different range which is one challenge but we can overcome that). And then maybe there is a control to remove the floor filter.
It’s useful for me, yes. For a while I was only submitting stories I found elsewhere and only voting for in-system stories that already had votes from other humans. Now I run through the list of AI stuff and try to give 1-2 votes to the gems to elevate them into the conversation. At first it was a bit weird, as a user, because a plethora of things with no votes makes the page look a little like a ghost town. Now that I’m accustomed to it and why it’s there, it bothers me less from an aesthetic point of view.
@andrewmoseman that’s great to hear. My theory is that for curators (a subset of users of which you are definitely one - and talented I might add!), they will value “going deeper” in the uncurated/less curated stuff. But regular readers will not want to do that. And I think if we are going to grow we have to design for readers first, but grow our curator userbase. But if there are curator tools you’d find helpful (eg link to a twitter search for a given url, etc) I’d like to hear about those.
Not sure, I really need to know the % match. I am also not crazy about the long key word match that follows the headline of the article. Not sure how this helps the reader. Maybe more technical readers like this. I am skimming to see if I want to read the full article. I, like one of the other users, would love a one-two sentence summary of the article.