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Citation? I got a lot of crap notifications for years and years and have completely abandoned FB at this point b/c of the low signal to noise.

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Same. Years ago I found that thanks to the gymnastics Facebook had done in notification settings, I could no longer stop many of the notifications I didn’t care about - so I shut them all off, FB Messenger and all. Since then I open Facebook maybe once a month.

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>rather than our usual operating model of sending all relevant notifications (either rated 4 or 5 on a scale of 1–5)

Relevance isn't a sufficient metric.

Just because something is "relevant" to me doesn't mean I want to be notified. Usually I don't.

I go out of my way to have zero unread notifications in any software I actively use, even if it means making liberal use of Mark All As Read. This lets me visually scan for where activity is without visual noise.

>Just because something is "relevant" to me doesn't mean I want to be notified.

By definition a relevant notification is something you want to get a notification for.

Your algorithms cannot quantify relevance, then, because it's inherently subjective.

What might be "relevant" to most people will not be relevant to me.

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