What's Going on with the Feed?

@SW-User
We will take your suggestions and feedback into consideration.

One important thing to mention (which I think we haven't said publicly before):

Post Impressions, Click-Through Rate and Time Spent on posts, ARE all factors which can impact user's future reach and post quality scores.

I understand that it can seem like a "No-Brainer", to simply provide to users who wish for it, the option to see ALL Posts made by ALL Users,
however, there are numerous reasons as to why this is not a good idea.


To mention just a few:

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1) Users seeing Irrelevant posts in their feed, and not clicking on them (even worse, Hiding or Downvoting them), can have a negative impact on the poster.

For that reason, it's our job to try to show user's posts mostly to those who might be positively interested.
These factors and metrics have been implemented for some time now, not long after the Smart Feed was first introduced.

Even if it's a small % of users who have access to all posts,
they being power users, would account for a significant % of feed impressions to all user's posts.
which would skew Click-Through, Viewing-Time and Interaction data for the posters.

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2) We have seen many users (even seasoned, power-users), leave negative, disparaging comments towards others who have different interests.
There's no reason those posts should have been shown to them, in the first place.

I've seen interactions like this, happen to brand new users:


While it may seem "Fun" to poke around and see what everyone else is talking about and interested in,
many users don't join and post in particular groups, with the intent of Everyone seeing what they have posted.

Groups are intended to broadcast one's post to a targeted audience.

It does not provide privacy and a comfortable feeling, when user's posts are out in the open for everyone else irrelevant, to see.

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3) If some user chose to "Scrape All Posts" on SW, and publish them on some other website...
Of course, we the Admins would be the ones blamed, for making that so easily accessible.

No serious social networking website, should provide a complete and easy to access list of all posts being made, in chronological order.

There are many ways in which that can be exploited.

Ok. I have a better understanding of the reasoning now.

For the time being if you could give us the option to move
the New (💥) tab as it is to
the left handside instead of the default feed it would be great, like a quick handy fix.

As for the previous suggestion, maybe not total visibility due to the concerns you mentioned but a significantly larger %. Say the current scope is 25% of the total feed in average. The improved VIP visibility is 50% (hypothetical numbers). If you can make it work in sync with the current algorithms as an added external factor regardless of interactions with users/topics.

Anyway thanks for taking the time to listen & clarify those point.
@Andrew

@SW-User We've (just now) released another improvement that should reduce the number of posts from the same user appearing back-to-back in the Feed, for more extreme cases. Hopefully that will do it now :)

@Nimbus 😆a bit like the lid on oles coffin when he was united manager nimby

@smiler2012 Now I now how Gerrard felt at Aston Villa ;)

@hunkalove oh that's right. 3 years ago he posted "Will I buy SW for less than 5 dollars and would you do him?"

@hunkalove the site is worth 21,000 that is it when I first joined it was worth 56,000

@hunkalove an old saying, a fool and his money soon part😂

@MrBrownstone Yes & Tik Tok

@JohnOinger Will it be renamed "JohnOlinger's Worlds?

@MrBrownstone maybe

@SW-User yes I've seen four posted closed by nuno and on one comparing tik tok to s w

@candycane I had mine closed and Nuno chose his own reply as best, making it pinned. I chose a different best comment, but even with VIP, I am not able to open it again.