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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 Twit
by 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 agoIf 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.