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> algorithm to detect reporting rings How the hell is this not a thing already at Facebook? Are you freaking serious, Facebook? And you want to impress us with

by mtgx 9y ago

> algorithm to detect reporting rings How the hell is this not a thing already at Facebook? Are you freaking serious, Facebook? And you want to impress us with your lame "AI"?! Reddit has had ring voting protection for years, and it only has 1/10 of Facebook's userbase. I sure hope Facebook isn't planning on developing a self-driving car software platform.

AnkhMorporkian 9y ago
Why don't you think they have one? Let's take a second and think about how awful Facebook would be right now if they didn't have the protections they have in place already. Taking an isolated incident of community reporting taking down some posts and accounts doesn't show in any way that they don't have protections against bot rings. What if it's legitimate users who have a vendetta against the protesters? Obviously, that doesn't make the end result OK, but that wouldn't be some weird evidence of technical neglect by Facebook.
- robryk 9y ago
  I doubt that this is an isolated incident. I've directly seen a few cases when content that was unpopular with a large group was removed for ridiculously false reasons and heard of various FB groups trolling each other by getting each other banned.
- Muromec 9y ago
  That sure was the case in Ukraine during the was and it's going on on now with Saakashvili. Lots of people just tag everything as porno and user who posted this goes to ban. When you are trying to appeal, it obviously goes to somebody who should know the language post was written and it happens to be some Russian, who also flags it.
Stanish 9y ago
Reddit is one of the most systematically brigaded sites on the internet. Really bad example.
eighthnate 9y ago
> Reddit has had ring voting protection for years It does? Is that why reddit is inundated with political propaganda everyday?

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> algorithm to detect reporting rings How the hell is this not a thing already at Facebook? Are you freaking serious, Facebook? And you want to impress us with

by mtgx 9y ago

AnkhMorporkian 9y ago
Why don't you think they have one? Let's take a second and think about how awful Facebook would be right now if they didn't have the protections they have in place already. Taking an isolated incident of community reporting taking down some posts and accounts doesn't show in any way that they don't have protections against bot rings. What if it's legitimate users who have a vendetta against the protesters? Obviously, that doesn't make the end result OK, but that wouldn't be some weird evidence of technical neglect by Facebook.
- robryk 9y ago
  I doubt that this is an isolated incident. I've directly seen a few cases when content that was unpopular with a large group was removed for ridiculously false reasons and heard of various FB groups trolling each other by getting each other banned.
- Muromec 9y ago
  That sure was the case in Ukraine during the was and it's going on on now with Saakashvili. Lots of people just tag everything as porno and user who posted this goes to ban. When you are trying to appeal, it obviously goes to somebody who should know the language post was written and it happens to be some Russian, who also flags it.
Stanish 9y ago
Reddit is one of the most systematically brigaded sites on the internet. Really bad example.
eighthnate 9y ago
> Reddit has had ring voting protection for years It does? Is that why reddit is inundated with political propaganda everyday?