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If I had to come up with a system, it would be some sort of reputation hierarchy, with a small number of paid employees at the top. Each level is responsible fo
by uniqueid 6y ago
If I had to come up with a system, it would be some sort of reputation hierarchy, with a small number of paid employees at the top. Each level is responsible for auditing the levels under them.
> What real agency does the system you propose offer?
The ability for millions of users to moderate themselves. So... fast response time, by opinionated, emotionally-invested moderators, as opposed to the status quo: slow response time by paid burn-outs following a flow-chart.
> if your system requires users to view beheading videos regularly
I'm pretty sure that content would be reported faster than anything else. To be fair, another part of the issue is ban-evasion using multiple accounts, and that indeed requires additional measures to handle. Sadly, there's a disincentive to dealing with fake accounts, because trolls count as "sign-ups" too.
> people will just migrate to a site that doesn't require that.
Like Youtube and Facebook still occassionally do. Well, most users haven't abandoned them yet, so there goes that theory :)
- shadowgovt 6y ago> occasionally Precisely. How often? Close to never.
- uniqueid 6y agoGive or take a live-streamed Christchurch massacre?
- shadowgovt 6y agoYes. One disastrous livestream in the history of the feature, with further controls added almost immediately as a result.
- uniqueid 6y agoNeither Youtube nor Facebook currently are able to filter all these incidents. This happened after Christchurch: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1853804/mass-shooter-killed-at-korat-mall-20-dead https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1853804/mass-sh... I could swear there was also a Christchurch copy-cat attack in Europe, but I can't remember sufficient details about it to find an article. Perhaps that one wasn't streamed on FB. I don't have encyclopedic knowledge of Facebook atrocities (I closed my account nearly a decade ago), but without vetting content before it goes live, I don't see how they will entirely prevent these videos from reaching some users.
- shadowgovt 6y agoI don't know that all is realistic. It's the desired unattainable goal. Almost all is the current status quo. If a service like FB were to adopt a volunteer moderator model, that track record would crash by definition because the moderators would be seeing the garbage. (That's before we factor in unintended consequences such as the risk that a critical mass of moderators decide the garbage is signal and start passing it. It's more risk than FB wants to take on for a problem they already solve via paid employees).