{"id":42193,"date":"2014-05-25T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T21:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/25\/dont-feed-the-trolls.html"},"modified":"2014-05-27T07:57:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:57:43","slug":"dont-feed-the-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/25\/dont-feed-the-trolls.html","title":{"rendered":"Don’t feed the trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"
An interesting study done of social networks and up\/down like\/dislike voting mechanisms on posts and comments. \u00a0Bottom line:<\/p>\n

– Positive feedback doesn't do much.
– Lack of feedback leads to people leaving.
– Negative feedback encourages more posting, of lower quality, and the passing on of additional negative feedback.<\/p>\n

So the most effective thing you can do (outside of emergency situations that require intervention) is simply ignore the folks who are saying stupid things. Downvoting give both encouragement and resentment for them to chew on.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Yonatan Zunger<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Jim Wilbur<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNot only do authors of negatively-evaluated content contribute more, but also their future posts are of lower quality, and are perceived by the community as such,\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/medium.com\/the-physics-arxiv-blog\/aad9d49da238<\/a>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Data Mining Reveals How The \u201cDown-Vote\u201d Leads To A Vicious Circle Of Negative Feedback<\/a>
\n A classic theory of behavioural psychology predicts that punishment should improve behaviour. But the first study of onl\u2026\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting study done of social networks and up\/down like\/dislike voting mechanisms on posts and comments. \u00a0Bottom line: – Positive feedback doesn't do much.– Lack of feedback leads to people leaving.– Negative feedback encourages more posting, of lower quality, and the passing on of additional negative feedback. So the most effective thing you can do … Continue reading “Don’t feed the trolls”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,100,6],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-dolts","category-science","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133829,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/10\/we-dont-need-no-higher-education-republicans.html","url_meta":{"origin":42193,"position":0},"title":"We don't need no [higher] education!" — Republicans","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Jul-17 5:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Who'd've thought that Republicans would become such big Pink Floyd fans? 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