[HN Gopher] Only bad poems go viral
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Only bad poems go viral
Author : areoform
Score : 10 points
Date : 2025-02-20 22:26 UTC (4 days ago)
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| taeric wrote:
| Feels like "Signaling a Political Ingroup" is enough of a signal
| to explain all of these examples?
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| Not that I don't think they aren't also trying at the other
| points. I think they are over explaining, though.
| redeux wrote:
| > One caveat: the six triggers are, importantly, specific to
| Twitter. On Instagram--where a poem might pop up accompanied by
| a coffee cup or pen artfully in frame, as well as watercolor or
| pen-and-ink illustrations--even terrible verse rarely provokes
| vitriol. This stark difference suggests our relationship to art
| is increasingly shaped by the architectural affordances of the
| social platforms where we encounter it.
|
| I believe this is the point they're ultimately making.
| taeric wrote:
| I don't really disagree with that. I'm just challenging that
| many of those points are how people signal to their in crowd.
|
| Also notable that twitter, specifically, is overwhelmingly
| signalling to the crowd. I think this has been true for a
| long time, but it does feel that it is more extreme now.
|
| My guess is that this would be a more constructive argument
| against algorithms driving engagement. They are
| overwhelmingly hijacked by in group signals in ways that
| curated data, oddly, was not. Not that curation always
| worked, mind. You could build up more trust that curators at
| least put some reputation on the line with regards to other
| factors.
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