Comment on Testing Boosts on Meta
Ed_S@meta.discourse.org 2 months ago
who is going to see the text, and when will they see it? is a person expected to keep revisiting every reply in a topic to see if any new boosts have turned up?
what’s the chance of toxic content appearing in boosts? who will see, who will police?
what’s the chance of a side-conversation happening within boosts?
I very much hope this is optional: it doesn’t seem attractive to me for my forums.
(And if it doesn’t chance the order or promotion of a reply, I think boost is a poor name. Quip seems better, but that’s possibly not a widely enough understood word.)
That’s an aspect I have thought about, too. Since no one else is notified, someone with bad intentions can be quite sure the user themselves will read the message, while a public reply bumping the topic might be flagged by someone else.
I haven’t tested how muting a user interacts with boosts. If a user has already muted another user, it could either result in an unwanted notification because of the boost by the person they muted or no notification for anyone about the bad boost, so it might stay undiscovered by members who could flag it for a while.