Should SW get rid of private messaging?

Would this improve the feeds?
Or are most people here primarily using messaging while here?
I mean…this can’t be everything this site has to offer, can it?

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NerdyPotato ·

This place would be boring without PMs, but I wish the feed were a little more active too.

Ghostinthemachine · M

@NerdyPotato if everyone is off messaging each other, then there is no one active on the feeds for those to engage with who aren’t messaging with anyone.

Like those two over there 👉

NerdyPotato ·

@Ghostinthemachine true, but disabling PMs will likely drive people off the site entirely rather than back to the feed. I think the solution lies in getting more users rather than forcing existing ones to use it differently.

OogieBoogie · F

@NerdyPotato i think it lies in FIXING DA FUCKING FEED!🤬

This place was pretty good. It was slowly gaining a decent, varied, funny and sociable community : one better than most chat sites.

Now....im afraid the culture will end up like every other site, or worse ....its gonna die a slow death due to the stagnant feed😔

Ghostinthemachine · M

@NerdyPotato you may have a point. Much better than my idea of cancelling PMs so more people will reply to my posts 🤭

NerdyPotato ·

@OogieBoogie not only stagnant, but also only showing the topics we've interacted with before, reducing variation and trapping people into one-sided information confirming their bias. SW was the only website not contributing to that dangerous thing, until recently. 😔