Engagement Metrics Criticism
The cluster focuses on how online platforms and sites like HN optimize for user engagement metrics, often at the expense of user experience, leading to ragebait, entrapment, and other negative outcomes. Discussions debate the implications of prioritizing engagement over utility or quality content.
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not true, it gives you more of what you engaged withif you looked for a few seconds longer = engagementif you read the comments in disgust = engagementif you commented in disagreement, even to reply to another comment = engagement
Why is engagement the metric to optimize for? I can find utility in a post that I don't engage with.
Because they're optimizing for some engagement metric and not user experience.
This sounds like something that "increases engagement metrics" ...
how about "user engagement"?
I think that is a consequence of maximizing engagement.
from whose perspective? for HN, it helps drive engagement.
Maybe it improves their engagement metric.
When the metric for success starts and stops at "engagement"!
lots of platforms optimize for engagement, but all that does is encourage ragebait