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They can't share the detailed rules since that will give abusers more information to take advantage of. You assume everyone is a legitimate user, but non trivia
by drivebycomment 7y ago
They can't share the detailed rules since that will give abusers more information to take advantage of. You assume everyone is a legitimate user, but non trivial fraction of online accounts are for abuse. Since the perfect precision on abuse detection is impossible and insufficient abuse detection often means a death for the service (spam, legal, PR), this is impossible to avoid. The only question is the rate of false positive flagging. Given that this is purely anecdotal, it doesn't give me any way to assess whether Vimeo's false positive is egregiously bad or not.
- ineedasername 7y agoI don't see how an error message stating, "html markup is not allowed in your post" will in anyway facilitate more abuse than banning when the abusive bad actors will simply take the ban as a signal of the same, create another account, and then avoid the activity. There's a balance to be struck between usability and abuse prevention, and currently Vimeo has got it wrong.