How do we make a feature out of this: delays. Depending on your (unknown) credit, you may have to wait 0.1s or 10s between likes.
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Shadowbanning is actually a clumsy, too-coarse version of this. General idea, use time to tune a user's agency and reach.
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Things like klout fail by being too legible, lack of auto-feedback into ux. I have to *decide* to ignore you because you're a klout loser
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Time as backend currency also helps subcultures differentiate. Mutual follow = less mutual time delay. Fully ignored 1 way = high delays
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With enough inbound, trolls end up auto-muted/blocked at back of oversubscribed queue that more trusted people keep jumping: infinite delay
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the time-domain queuing theory version of infinite wait times would be "rich hold steady, poor grow poorer." Zero sum world...
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my mental model is spatial: I imagine a forest where bigger trees can grow broader branches and put out longer/deeper roots.
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time has no frontiers (unless you count dilation a la matrix, mindfulness), so it's fundamentally diff from space imo.
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yup...solved one such "queue inequality" problem for phd. Twitter is time, not space. Streams in general, space metaphors bad
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