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I worked at a place that had a top secret "spam team" shrouded in secrecy. Secret meetings, separate code repo, iirc even a dedicated meeting room, etc. The off
by wonnage 6y ago
I worked at a place that had a top secret "spam team" shrouded in secrecy. Secret meetings, separate code repo, iirc even a dedicated meeting room, etc. The official reason was that they didn't want their spam detection algorithms to be leaked. Coincidentally there was a lot of outside speculation about whether being in the free vs. paying tier of customer would affect this spam detection.
One can only wonder!
- p1necone 6y agoThis is actually sort of reasonable. The details of automatic moderation tools need to remain secret otherwise they can be gamed really easily. Even manual moderation strategies generally work better if they're not explained (see - HN itself).
- nradov 6y agoWell that's what social media companies like to claim but we have no actual proof of that. Trust us, they say.
- jacobsimon 6y agoSounds like Yelp ;)
- kmeisthax 6y agoGoogle?