The truth is that Boost is not a system for eradicating personal judgement. It's supposed to aid personal judgement. Nothing is guaranteed to be valuable just because it is Boosted, but something which is Boosted is more valuable to assign personal judgement. If you have enough time to judge all content you encounter then Boost is not useful to you. It is only useful to help you manage what content to evaluate.
For example, something that goes to your spam filter is occasionally useful to you. And if you were trying to get the maximum value possible, you would read all your spam on the off chance that some of it is useful.
But that isn't realistic. If things which were Boosted were just as likely to be spam as things which weren't then sorting by Boost would not be useful.
But because things which are Boosted are less likely to be spam, it is useful. Once an individual discovers for themselves that Boost has ANY use, even a small use, then its market importance necessarily increases.
The primary use of Boost is not for people putting content into the world but people receiving content and evaluating it based on their own merit structure.
Because it is valuable to users, content creators will identify it as a way to reach users. It becomes its own eco-system.
Just because you don't see its value doesn't mean its value isn't there. And just because its value isn't fully understood today doesn't mean it won't be understood tomorrow.
The truth is that Boost is not a system for eradicating personal judgement. It's supposed to aid personal judgement. Nothing is guaranteed to be valuable just because it is Boosted, but something which is Boosted is more valuable to assign personal judgement. If you have enough time to judge all content you encounter then Boost is not useful to you. It is only useful to help you manage what content to evaluate.
For example, something that goes to your spam filter is occasionally useful to you. And if you were trying to get the maximum value possible, you would read all your spam on the off chance that some of it is useful.
But that isn't realistic. If things which were Boosted were just as likely to be spam as things which weren't then sorting by Boost would not be useful.
But because things which are Boosted are less likely to be spam, it is useful. Once an individual discovers for themselves that Boost has ANY use, even a small use, then its market importance necessarily increases.
The primary use of Boost is not for people putting content into the world but people receiving content and evaluating it based on their own merit structure.
Because it is valuable to users, content creators will identify it as a way to reach users. It becomes its own eco-system.
Just because you don't see its value doesn't mean its value isn't there. And just because its value isn't fully understood today doesn't mean it won't be understood tomorrow.