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There was a lot of social/cultural issues with YikYak. My college explicitly forbid using it, and a lot of other small colleges had similar policies, largely be
by implying 6y ago
There was a lot of social/cultural issues with YikYak. My college explicitly forbid using it, and a lot of other small colleges had similar policies, largely because of abusive posts happening on the platform.
- KingMachiavelli 6y agoI know they ended up working with high schools to limit access in certain areas. But I'd be really suprised if a college could legally forbid using the service.
- three_seagrass 6y agoTheir opaque moderation tactics also killed it. There were the transparent obscenity warnings, but then there were also shadow downvotes for certain terms that even closely resembled a human name, which was rife with false positives. You could talk about a street with a human name and 10 minutes later your comment was voted out of existence.
- throwawaysea 6y agoHow could they forbid the use of an app?