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It's less like that anymore. Group raids involving post reporting became a huge issue a while back, so most political pages use membership application questions
by crocodiletears 6y ago
It's less like that anymore. Group raids involving post reporting became a huge issue a while back, so most political pages use membership application questions requiring you to positively affirm or signal in-group association before joining. Nothing prevents you from lying to get into a group, but it's oddly effective as a mechanism for preventing partisan opponents from engaging in any dialogue.
- jbay808 6y agoAh, good to know. This is why we can't have nice things.
- karmelapple 6y agoI think a big part of the shift of interactions over the last 5 - 10 years is the communication platform (Facebook, in this case) bringing in new users who had zero experience debating in a text-only format. It’s probably inevitable, unless the platform tries to educate and heavily police new users on what proper behavior is. Facebook was incentivized to grow as fast as possible. Comments and discussion was one of many vectors for growing; photos, news, and silly images was just as important. The quality of all that wasn’t as important as the content coming from people you know and trust. Contrast that with a community like HN, where quality of comments and content is much more important, since you have little to no trust for almost all people submitting content.