I believe that there is already far too much “hate sharing”.
Perhaps the default in a social media UI should be that shared content includes a public endorsement of whatever content it links to, and if you want to “hate share” anything without such an endorsement, you have to fight a hostile UI to do so.
In particular, “things that are worth sharing” absolutely should not overlap with “want to see less of”. If you want to see less of some type of thing, it’s self-defeating to distribute more copies of it. Worse, if you even suspect that any of your own readers are anything like you, why are you inflicting it on them?
One way to “see less of” something you hate is to stop it from being produced, and that may be seen as a better solution than basically averting your eyes from it. Rallying mobs to get whoever produced it fired has proven to be quite effective.
I believe that there is already far too much “hate sharing”.
Perhaps the default in a social media UI should be that shared content includes a public endorsement of whatever content it links to, and if you want to “hate share” anything without such an endorsement, you have to fight a hostile UI to do so.
In particular, “things that are worth sharing” absolutely should not overlap with “want to see less of”. If you want to see less of some type of thing, it’s self-defeating to distribute more copies of it. Worse, if you even suspect that any of your own readers are anything like you, why are you inflicting it on them?
One way to “see less of” something you hate is to stop it from being produced, and that may be seen as a better solution than basically averting your eyes from it. Rallying mobs to get whoever produced it fired has proven to be quite effective.