Collaborative Social Media Post with Versioned Views
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing social media platforms face issues with duplicative posts from multiple users, leading to viewer confusion and inefficiencies, as users waste time reviewing similar content with minimal incremental benefit.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that allows multiple users to collaborate on a single public post, generating different versions for various viewer groups, controlling access and content presentation based on user networks, and managing commenting permissions to prevent duplication and enhance content relevance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple users independently post about the same event, then each user can share their perspective, but duplicative content reaches viewers causing confusion and wasted time
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple independent posts about the same event are merged into a single collaborative post. The system detects that multiple users are posting about the same event and automatically combines their contributions into one unified post, eliminating duplicative content while preserving diverse perspectives through structured sections or annotations.
Solution Approach 2:
A single post structure serves multiple users simultaneously by incorporating contributions from different authors. The post functions as both an individual expression and a collective representation, allowing multiple perspectives to coexist in one unified content piece that reaches all viewers once.
2Device complexity
If a single post is made by one user, then content is simple to manage, but collaborative content creation is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The collaborative post is segmented into distinct sections or components, each attributed to a specific contributor. This segmentation allows multiple users to work on different parts of the content independently while maintaining overall structural organization and management simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary platform that manages the collaboration process between multiple users. This intermediary handles the complexity of coordinating contributions, resolving conflicts, and organizing content, while presenting a simplified interface to both contributors and viewers.
3Quantity of substance
If all post content is made public, then maximum visibility is achieved, but privacy control over individual contributions is lost
Solution Approach 1:
Different portions of the collaborative post have different privacy attributes. Each contributor's specific sections or annotations can be marked with varying privacy levels, allowing the system to publish the entire post publicly while protecting sensitive individual contributions through selective privacy controls on local content segments.
Data Source
AI summary
A public post is created in conjunction with a social media platform, where a first poster contributes a first subset of artifacts used in the public post and a second poster contributes a second subset of artifacts used in the public post. From the public post, a first version is generated corresponding to the first poster where the first version includes the first subset of artifacts and an artifact from the second subset of artifacts. A first view of the public post is generated for a first viewer, the first view presenting the first version in a public portion and a private post of the first poster in a private portion, where the first viewer is a member of a first social network of the first poster. A second view of the public post is generated for a second viewer, which presents a second version in the public portion.