Thanks for the thoughtful and useful feedback!
You’re right and we probably will update the domain down the road.
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You’re right and we probably will update the domain down the road.
You do have a point about majority of opinion not necessarily being the truth.
The way we see this is, when someone looks for feedback or needs to make a decision, having a diverse pool of unbiased information increases the chances of having a better understanding of the truth. Thus potentially making a petter decision.
As for Sybil attacks, it will be virtually impossible to influence and target a particular question as each user is not open to choose which question to match. Throw does the thrower/catchers matching using a dynamic algorithm with many variables to determine the best matches. So we are expecting certain users to try to use several accounts to try to go around the system and we’re prepared for that.
I really appreciate your candid feedback and am really hoping you love it once it’s out there!
I must tell you that we have thought of this too. And even though I cannot tell you we have a perfect solution, we have made a conscious effort to solve it and the way we address it is the following.
Yes, there is a limitation for Text questions, so for complex questions that need extensive or technical context Throw as you suspect may not be the best tool to use (at least not at this stage, we have more plans for later on).
However, there are so many use cases that may not need as profound context but still some context.
And the way we have enhanced this is by providing flexibility using media formats.
The users will be able to mix and match Text, Image, Audio, Video, Poll, Multiple Question and more. As an example a voice note may be most appropriate to some user and context and the user may very effectively sum up question and context, for some other an image poll mar be very self explanatory and like this there are multiple combinations that can be used.
One other thing to keep in mind is that people today are more prepared and used to summarize in digital platforms.
Take Twitter, where it was first thought ridiculous to function with a 120 character limit (today 280) but people adapted and became more efficient at communicating certain types of ideas.
I hope you find this interesting and even thought answer may seem defensive, I really appreciate your honest feedback!