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As a proud owner of the "Gordon Ramsey" badge, I'd like to say that this is fucking interesting. :-D Really inspired me to think about integrating something li
by martin_a 5y ago
As a proud owner of the "Gordon Ramsey" badge, I'd like to say that this is fucking interesting. :-D
Really inspired me to think about integrating something like this in one of our systems.
- BlackLotus89 5y agoI had this too! But it fucking disappeared on me somehow! Yeah I got the F! Badge as well
- quickthrower2 5y agoSorry a bug fix went in!
- martin_a 5y agoYou took my Gordon from me! Big dislike! :-P
- cinntaile 5y agoThis perfectly shows the problem of gamification imo.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoI'm just glad HN doesn't (yet?) have strict (puritanical, think of the children/advertisers, etc) language rules. I mean we're all adults here, we can use adult language to each other. Likewise, I don't get the recent trend of self-censoring words like suicide, police or kill. I think it's mainly a thing on tiktok? But it's leaking out from there as well.
- martin_a 5y agoI think I've seen it on sexual education-like videos on Instagram, too. People censored the names of genitals, probably so that automatic filters won't ban them or whatnot. It's a difficult problem, I think.
- jack1243star 5y agoIt's most probably a China thing. (Self-censoring "sensitive words" to avoid takedown.)
- co2benzoate 5y agoWhich topics are banned in China? Other than the typical Winnie the Pooh, Tiananmen Square, and Taiwan areas? edit - I guess Tiananmen Square isn't available in spell check
- input_sh 5y agoIt's not that, it's more that there are words in general that TikTok does not tolerate, and there's no definitive list of those words. Some of them: gun, pissed, penis, vagina, any swear word, etc. So since there's no definitive list and you can't make one because the content is not outright deleted (algorithm just ignores it), you end up in a situation where TikTok users self-censor just in case. This is similar to what China does internally, but the list is definitely different.
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- GekkePrutser 5y agoIndeed, and it's not as if we use those words every day in informal context. Yet when it's slightly more public it's suddenly a big deal? It's a bit hypocritical to pretend to be offended by something that everyone really does. Even the "think of the children". Are there any children that don't know these words?
- arethuza 5y ago"we can use adult language to each other" Like monad or functor? Edit: I'd be more worried about using a word like "monad" incorrectly on HN than swearing.
- SamBam 5y agoI assumed they meant words like "mortgage" and "insurance." You know, the kinds of topics they flag as "adult situations" in TV.
- darepublic 5y agoReminds me of random warnings on OpenAI about unsafe content. I get this for very banal things that are truly puzzling
- werber 5y agoI’m a bit confused by the recent adoption in saying “unalive” instead of “suicide”, I’m genuinely not sure what it accomplishes. They sound similar and mean the same thing.
- theshrike79 5y agoAt least on TikTok "unalive" is used as a replacement for "kill" in a way to circumvent the automatic language detection from banning/quarantining your content.
- mattowen_uk 5y agoI'm not sure those words mean the same thing. A rock is most definitely 'unalive', but it didn't commit suicide, nor was it murdered. As technologists we're tuned the idea that if you throw enough code at a problem it can be solved, but currently it's very clear that the content filtering 'AI's that are out there on the big platforms are not very good at their jobs.
- detaro 5y agoEspecially TikTok has very aggressive content filtering, so if you want people to see your content about such topics, you need to use terms the filter doesn't yet penalize.
- duxup 5y agoThis is one of those topics I tend to agree with in principle. And then every time I run into someone who feels very strongly about it ... the rate of me thinking about how it should be a rule based on their usage alone. One of those weird things where i agree and then you meet the folks who have very strong feelings about it and I start to have second thoughts ;) Granted I don't yet feel that way.
- datenarsch 5y ago"Likewise, I don't get the recent trend of self-censoring words like suicide, police or kill. I think it's mainly a thing on tiktok? But it's leaking out from there as well." I presume this is to that their postings won't be censored/shadow banned/deleted/muted/whatever. Kind of reminds you of China, doesn't it?