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Not sure I follow your first comment. Why would deleting a fake account [edit: without also telling its followers] solve the issue? Most people probably would n
by seoaeu 5y ago
Not sure I follow your first comment. Why would deleting a fake account [edit: without also telling its followers] solve the issue? Most people probably would never notice that the account vanished and would go on believing whatever nonsense it was spreading.
- airstrike 5y agoMore effective to delete the account before it spreads said nonsense to even more people?
- mgkimsal 5y agoand it then feeds the persecution complex of "see, BIGTECH is SILENCING all the voices THEY don't want YOU to READ!" :/
- wussboy 5y agoNot if we delete that account too....
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- philipswood 5y agoYou mean: Why not simply delete that account too?
- aeternum 5y agoWhy not simply do both?
- lamontcg 5y agowinner
- dredmorbius 5y agoThe practice reduces repeat offences. Where follower-recruitment is expensive, it increases trust-attack costs. Where account-creation is expensive (through verification, reputation, financial costs, validation tokens (e.g., SIMs, phone numbers, external vouchers)), it again increases attack costs. Note that both remedies might be more effective than either separately: notify the reader of the false data (in the even the offending account hadn't already been removed) and remove the offending account.