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Did DDG say they're upranking "good" propaganda and downranking "bad" propaganda? What I understood from the tweets is that DDG is downranking propaganda. Russi
by giaour 5y ago
Did DDG say they're upranking "good" propaganda and downranking "bad" propaganda? What I understood from the tweets is that DDG is downranking propaganda. Russia happens to produce a lot of it, so they'd be more impacted.
- pessimizer 5y agoNo, what they said is that they're downranking "sites associated with Russian disinformation", not "propaganda." If what you understood is different than that, it's different that what the tweet directly says.
- giaour 5y agoSource reputation is an important heuristic for determining whether a given piece is content is likely to be spam. If a web property is demonstrated to be routinely publishing falsehoods to sway public opinion, you don't think that should factor into a site's reputation score?
- adamrezich 5y agowhat is and is not propaganda is subjective. something your state government tells you that you take for granted to be true may in fact be propaganda. but in the absence of a Universal Propaganda Detection Algorithm, whether or not something is propaganda is up to personal interpretation.
- giaour 5y agoWe're arguing the same point, I think. The GP was arguing against a straw man that only one kind of spam should be downranked.
- _-david-_ 5y agoWhen you downgrade one site another site is upranked. If you have a basic result 1. Good 2. Bad 3. Good And downrank the propaganda, the #3 result will now be #2. This is up ranking the good by default.