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I think I would be fine with a positive enumeration. Some ideas for serving content:

    - purely random
    - sponsored but without user tracking (like old school TV ads)
       - sponsored for user selected geographical area feed
       - sponsored for user current location geographical area feed
    - follow "friends" or influencers
    - purely timeline

    - discussion boards
      - timeline (IRC like)
      - threaded
      - user votes (not magic platform votes)

    - follow keywords


So Hacker News wouldn't be allowed?


I think it should be, maybe I'm missing some aspect, I just cooked up a simple list of rules on the spot, sheesh :-D

Edit: huh, I'm probably stupid, but can you explain more?


HN uses magical platform votes.


And it should be transparent about it. When Dan uses a magic lever, it should be visible.


Would Facebook be okay if all the Nazi propaganda posts were tagged "Facebook boosted this post"?


If they did boost it, why shouldn't they tell us?


Would that be all that's required to make it okay?


No, I don't think so.




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