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TheMisinformationGame / MisinformationGame

The Misinformation Game is a social-media simulator built to study how people interact with information on social-media.
https://misinfogame.com
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Disable follower/credibility numbers entirely if they are not displayed #4

Closed Sothatsit closed 1 year ago

Sothatsit commented 2 years ago

Currently, the follower/credibility numbers for posts and sources are still required even if they are not displayed to participants. It would be nice if they were not required, to make the process simpler for researchers creating studies.

Currently, the game allows disabling these values for likes/dislikes/shares/flags individually, but not for credibility or followers as a whole. This would likely require only simple changes to the Excel reading, study simulation, and result writing functionality.

Sothatsit commented 1 year ago

I don't think this is worth doing, given how often followers/credibility are assumed to exist throughout the codebase. This also doesn't cause any issues for people, as they can just leave all the values at their default values and ignore followers/credibility.