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I struggle to see how clustering trolls so they're just trolling each-other is a problem? K-means clustering can quite easily distinguish between "echo chamber
by pjkundert 6y ago
I struggle to see how clustering trolls so they're just trolling each-other is a problem?
K-means clustering can quite easily distinguish between "echo chambers" -- where people just want to hear others who parrot their opinions and downvote any other voice, from "reasoned debate" -- where people downvote others who spout un-reasoned opinion, but upvote people they don't agree with, but who bring reasoned, respectful debate.
This is a solved problem. Its just that platform owners don't like the financial (and other) results of the solution.
- joshuamorton 6y agoEcho chambers cause an overall increase in extremism. After reddit banned /r/fatpeoplehate, reddit as a whole became less mean. When you give extremism room to congregate, extremists feel more empowered. (This is generally true, but relevant only to extremism at the moment). Unless you simultaneously cut them off from the rest of the site, which in the context of reddit, twitter, and Facebook doesn't make sense, you just make things worse.