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If you know how to reliably solve that easy problem I'm pretty sure they're hiring

by pound 8y ago

ksenzee 8y ago
Solving that particular problem is not hard: trash any reply to a celebrity or viral tweet that includes a link and gets reported x times. There was a good Twitter thread on this recently, pointing out that we look for complicated solutions when simple ones would do. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/987602838594445312.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/987602838594445312.html
- empath75 8y ago
  If you’re relying on reports that can be gamed.
  - Rjevski 8y ago
    > Automated systems can and will be gamed as well. Taking an user’s reputation, account lifetime, reputation of their followers, etc (so for example, a report from a new account has less weight than an established account with a good history) will sort that out. And when everything else fails, a proper appeals system where you talk to humans will solve this problem once and for all. False positives and abuse are bound to happen eventually, but they’re tolerable as long as you have a proper appeals process to deal with them.
- JoshTriplett 8y ago
  > Solving that particular problem is not hard: trash any reply to a celebrity or viral tweet that includes a link and gets reported x times. That's trivial to abuse, given a group of accounts filing false reports. That's not a hypothetical; as an example, Facebook's reporting functionality has been abused to attack people's accounts as part of various hate campaigns.
Rjevski 8y ago
I’m sure their engineers (if they still have any - I haven’t seen any innovation from Twitter in a long time) are more than capable of fixing this if management lets them. Hiring more engineers isn’t going to solve it. Management and product is where the real problem is IMO.
A2017U1 8y ago
Automatically flag any account making a reply with the same name or same picture. It's incredibly simple yet they don't do it.

If you know how to reliably solve that easy problem I'm pretty sure they're hiring

by pound 8y ago

If you know how to reliably solve that easy problem I'm pretty sure they're hiring

Solving that particular problem is not hard: trash any reply to a celebrity or viral tweet that includes a link and gets reported x times. There was a good Twitter thread on this recently, pointing out that we look for complicated solutions when simple ones would do. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/987602838594445312.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/987602838594445312.html

empath75 8y ago
If you’re relying on reports that can be gamed.
- Rjevski 8y ago
  > Automated systems can and will be gamed as well. Taking an user’s reputation, account lifetime, reputation of their followers, etc (so for example, a report from a new account has less weight than an established account with a good history) will sort that out. And when everything else fails, a proper appeals system where you talk to humans will solve this problem once and for all. False positives and abuse are bound to happen eventually, but they’re tolerable as long as you have a proper appeals process to deal with them.
JoshTriplett 8y ago
> Solving that particular problem is not hard: trash any reply to a celebrity or viral tweet that includes a link and gets reported x times. That's trivial to abuse, given a group of accounts filing false reports. That's not a hypothetical; as an example, Facebook's reporting functionality has been abused to attack people's accounts as part of various hate campaigns.

Rjevski 8y ago

I’m sure their engineers (if they still have any - I haven’t seen any innovation from Twitter in a long time) are more than capable of fixing this if management lets them. Hiring more engineers isn’t going to solve it. Management and product is where the real problem is IMO.

A2017U1 8y ago

Automatically flag any account making a reply with the same name or same picture. It's incredibly simple yet they don't do it.