Creating quality discussions on Myriad Social
I hope that you’ve not been disillusioned by social media platforms yet. With the amount of reactive and aggressive interactions among netizens on social media out there, it’s easy to be cynical and dismiss social media as merely “landfills” of junk comments.
Through our “discuss” and “debate” engagement features, Myriad Social wants to change that and hopefully can rekindle your trust in social media. We’ll lay down the evidence to support our argument in this article here; see if you find them convincing:
Discuss
You can use this section to make general comments about a particular content, to expand the content’s subject matter by looking at it more in-depth, or to ask probing questions. Here are several examples on how you can achieve these using the “discuss” section:
– Making general comments — you can send kudos or best wishes to individuals, projects or organizations you support. This way, you can stay in touch with communities or causes you care about. Which looks a little bit like this:
– Expanding the subject to make it more in-depth by addressing the different factors which influence specific social problems looks a little bit like this:
– Ask questions, if you are curious to find out more about a content. Can be something technical or factual, which looks like this:
Okay, let’s say you’re a sucker for computer keyboards which swish smoothly because you type a lot as part of your job and you stumble upon this content:
If you’re curious if this keyboard is suitable for your writing/typing activities, you can leave a question like this on the “discuss” section:
Or, because the product specifications are very niche with its technical jargons, you can also ask the following question:
Debate
Get some burning objections regarding some contents or statements you come across on Myriad Social? The emoticon for the debate section is a face burning red and it is not a coincidence.
Hopefully, through this mechanism, only people who truly want to expand the subject or examine it inside out will contribute to the “debate” section, in a civilized, insightful manner.
And, as you will recall from our previous tutorial on how to engage with contents, we also have “upvote” and “downvote” buttons for you to interact with other content creators.
Your downvotes, however, will count only if you leave a comment on the “debate” section. Clicking the downvote button will automatically direct you to the “debate” section (look the tutorial up if you need a refresher).
We put this mechanism in place to prevent a snowballing of downvotes.
Let’s use this hypothetical content as an example:
Just “downvoting” something on Myriad will not count. To make it count, each downvote must be backed up with a comment in the debate section.
You can also use the “debate” section to contend with content creators/users whom you suspect have distorted their data/statistics when presenting their facts. Let’s use this hypothetical content as an example.
With these features, start making friends with other content creators on Myriad Social, find topics or subject matters which pique your interest and join our collective effort to improve the quality of discussions on social media!
