It is not just the algorithms. You get an awful lot of crazed action from the uncurated commenters too. I bailed from Facebook a decade ago and have never been in X or any of the video platforms like TikTok or Instagram so my perspective is from MSM and the print portions of the Internet. A lot of these platforms don't allow comments but when they do I often read them to try to take the pulse. Even when the owners are posting relatively civilized, if sometimes controversial pieces, the commenters are often just off the wall especially when it comes to basic norms. I have abandoned some of my regular read and comment platforms after watching people call each other morons or other things that would be considered fighting words if you did it in person. Lots of people advocating violence too. While some of this is undoubtedly trolls, I have been doing this for years and have a long memory about prior posts. It could be that they are consuming social media out of my line of sight and adopting attitudes from that but I find little evidence like links. What links that do exist are generally amusing or downstream links from MSM.
> Jay was named one of the most highly cited researchers in the world by Clarivate Analytics. This award recognizes that “each researcher selected has authored multiple Highly Cited Papers™ which rank in the top 1% by citations for their field(s) and publication year in the Web of Science™ over the past decade… This list, based on citation activity is then refined using qualitative analysis and expert judgment as we observe for evidence of community-wide recognition from an international and wide-ranging network of citing authors.
After decrying the harms of bogus social media metrics and algorithms, you’re touting yourself using the equally bogus, and I’d say equally harmful, metric of citation count. “Qualitative analysis and expert judgment” = trust me, bro.
It is not just the algorithms. You get an awful lot of crazed action from the uncurated commenters too. I bailed from Facebook a decade ago and have never been in X or any of the video platforms like TikTok or Instagram so my perspective is from MSM and the print portions of the Internet. A lot of these platforms don't allow comments but when they do I often read them to try to take the pulse. Even when the owners are posting relatively civilized, if sometimes controversial pieces, the commenters are often just off the wall especially when it comes to basic norms. I have abandoned some of my regular read and comment platforms after watching people call each other morons or other things that would be considered fighting words if you did it in person. Lots of people advocating violence too. While some of this is undoubtedly trolls, I have been doing this for years and have a long memory about prior posts. It could be that they are consuming social media out of my line of sight and adopting attitudes from that but I find little evidence like links. What links that do exist are generally amusing or downstream links from MSM.
> Jay was named one of the most highly cited researchers in the world by Clarivate Analytics. This award recognizes that “each researcher selected has authored multiple Highly Cited Papers™ which rank in the top 1% by citations for their field(s) and publication year in the Web of Science™ over the past decade… This list, based on citation activity is then refined using qualitative analysis and expert judgment as we observe for evidence of community-wide recognition from an international and wide-ranging network of citing authors.
After decrying the harms of bogus social media metrics and algorithms, you’re touting yourself using the equally bogus, and I’d say equally harmful, metric of citation count. “Qualitative analysis and expert judgment” = trust me, bro.