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Most people don't consciously think "News Feed is full of clickbait"; instead they value the overall experience less, e.g. "I find News Feed less entertaining/worthwhile than BuzzFeed". They aren't aware of the curation going on under the hood, and soliciting feedback is considered more disruptive than anything.

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I met someone who was somewhat internet-addicted to buzzfeed. They would spend hours a day going through buzzfeed pages and get a tremendous source of enjoyment from it. So it's understandable that Facebook finds (no matter how hard they have to look for it) the value that users see in such articles and implement a filter that retains as much of it as possible.

I can see that as a reasonable concern. Two points though:

1. Speaking personally as a user, I wouldn't mind this a bit. And would actually love the ability to provide feedback more readily. I often hate the content of my feed and I would feel much better if it seemed like I had greater input on its filtering.

2. Whether gathering feedback has a negative effect or not seems like a testable hypothesis and this could be tried and measured, rather than simply speculated about.

Given the above, I'm not sure if this would be a rigorous rationale for avoiding the active feedback experiment.

re: #1, you can. Each post on your feed has a "show less like this" option on it.

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