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Agreed. Which leads to two questions: 1) Why is this post so far down the page? and 2) If anyone is qualified to combat automated (or perhaps even human) ast
by avn2109 11y ago
Agreed. Which leads to two questions:
1) Why is this post so far down the page?
and
2) If anyone is qualified to combat automated (or perhaps even human) astroturfing by technical means, it's YC. Dang/other mods, are there efforts underway to detect and mitigate this?
I ask both on principle and because the quality of discussion is noticeably damaged by having to wade through many questionably real comments before finding actual discussion.
And of course it's not just the Americans doing this, undoubtedly the Russians/Chinese etc do something similar.
- mindcrime 11y agoLooks like there has at least been some academic research on detecting astro-turfing on social media, although not sure if anybody has looked for the JTRIG stuff specifically. http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM11/paper/view/2850/3274 http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM11/paper/view/2... https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3768 https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3768 http://ra.ethz.ch/CDstore/www2011/companion/p249.pdf http://ra.ethz.ch/CDstore/www2011/companion/p249.pdf