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Any thoughts on alternative approach they could use--what would it look like etc? Would there be any undesirable consequences of a different approach?

• tnolet 7y ago
  Approach to what? User registration? Tracking fake accounts?
  • netfl0 7y ago
    > Very curious about what Facebook's response is to this (outside the response mentioned in the talk, which is clearly not sufficient) i.e. what would be sufficient in your view?
    • tnolet 7y ago
      Gotcha. Well, I'm not really sure. Maybe just making likes private or banning likes (as suggested in the talk). Or banning political advertising completely (see the part in the talk on political parties in Germany buying likes). Or something that completely destroys meddling and fraud and is observable by the public. The "we are working on it behind the scenes"-response is just not sufficient in my view.
    • zo1 7y ago
      You could go down the route of what Slashdot did back in the day. "Likes" were something you could only give out after getting them. So you merely passed them along (like money in a market, sorta). And getting those likes was difficult and hard to game. It was a sort of "pay it forward" system with random batches of "likes" being seeded into the community based on some sort of measurable behavior, after which the community would recycle it internally based on the like being a token of "reward". Whereas with current social media. Likes are given to users with out any care other than "hey you seem to be a valid user, let's allow you to generate large amounts of likes".