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No. The great opening of the Internet brought points of view onto the internet at scales that hitherto were unknown. There are so many asshats on the Internet t
by birdyrooster 6y ago
No. The great opening of the Internet brought points of view onto the internet at scales that hitherto were unknown. There are so many asshats on the Internet that old tactics of manual moderation do not work anymore. Doing nothing is a pathetic excuse for a solution.
- manigandham 6y agoWhat if someone considers you an "asshat"? What should they do? Sounds like the real issue is scale and anonymity then. What solution do you propose?
- birdyrooster 6y agoSelf service moderation which serves as training for machine learning algorithms. Perhaps a system where messages aren’t whitelisted for the entire platform by default but instead must pass scrutiny as a canary. At first you could seed this with employees for users with no audience. During this time the sentiments of those who view the message are used to determine if wider distribution is desired.
- koheripbal 6y agoPart of that is that the average age of participants on the internet has dropped very significantly since mobile applications become ubiquitous.