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rubenalexander

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Often times, creativity is most effective when it surprises the reader, viewer, or listener. If a DAC is programmed to reward under a set of rules, how will it reward experiments or posts/concepts that deviate from the DACs reward structure?

Posted on March 8, 2014 at 4:40 AM

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• adam

  

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  One non-monetary way is being done with design. Basically the new LTB platforms (web and app) will have show/blog specific feeds. Users will be able to toggle off ones they don't like, but that creates another problem - content once switched off can be forgotten, and sometimes it is more valuable than it was when you made your judgement.

  With that in mind, if a blog post or episode has a much greater impact than normal (say, 50% more traffic than average) it causes the toggle to flash or somehow indicate that there is value here worth looking at that might not have been there when last they looked.

  What other ideas do you have?

  Posted on March 8, 2014 at 4:51 AM
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• rubenalexander

  

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  I like that live notification you mentioned. Users will know there's a hot story and may reactivate hidden streams.

  This situation reminds me of Tim Ferriss and his A/B tests. I remember him saying he would print two different book covers and place a set of his books in a prominent place in a bookstore. He would watch people's reaction to both book covers and end up choosing the one people purchased the most as his final cover.

  The DAC could have a feature to do an A/B test. Will there be analytics built into the LTBcoin's DAC? I will think about this more.

  Posted on March 8, 2014 at 4:58 AM
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• adam

  

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  We are developing a giant firehose of content so user curation is mandatory, I'm in favor of lots of experimentation but this is a reason I want to get a CTO involved.

  Posted on March 8, 2014 at 5:01 AM
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