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Would this be some automated system that looks for copyrighted works?

• whywhywhywhy 4y ago
  Could easily see this being the fault of his employer for using automated content ID takedowns.
• chrisseaton 4y ago
  How can an automated system know the identity of users and what rights and licensing agreements they hold?
  • dangrossman 4y ago
    It can't. False positives are a trade-off against the administrative, legal and regulatory burdens of not having such a system on a UGC-hosting site at scale.
    • shkkmo 4y ago
      It seems like it does need to. Banning people for content they legally posses seems pretty questionable. Edit: You completely rewrote you comment after I responded, that is considered bad form on HN.
      • dangrossman 4y ago
        You responded less than 60 seconds after I wrote my comment, the substance of which is unchanged. Organizing thoughts into words is a process for me, it takes a moment.
        • shkkmo 4y ago
          Then do the organizing and rewrite befor you submit the comment or include your updated thoughts in a way that marks them as new and leaves the original content. I often add an edit immediately after I post, but unless it is fixing a typo, I always mark the edits.
          • deleted 4y ago
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        • corobo 4y ago
          There's a "delay" option in your settings, it's in minutes I give myself 6 minutes to fluff around (or get bored of and delete) comments before they appear live for that same reason
          • dangrossman 4y ago
            Thanks for the tip. Apparently delayed comments don't appear on the site instantly, but do appear in the API instantly. https://i.imgur.com/ytWyvc3.png https://i.imgur.com/ytWyvc3.png
            • corobo 4y ago
              huh, I wonder if their API bit (sends to firebase by the looks?) is missing an if e: and maybe a thing to rerun due deferred comments I guess I'll ping hn@ just in case
      • domador 4y ago
        This is a reflection of a poor commenting system. I would prefer for every online commenting system, including HN's, to allow one to see the version history of a comment. As things stand right now, commenting systems are biased in favor of revisionists.
        • shkkmo 4y ago
          Yes, it is a community standard that exists to work around a UX issue. I would agree that an edit history and an indicator that edits have been made would probably be an improvement. That said, in the past when HN seemed to be doing something weird, dang usually has a pretty great explanation for why, so there might be a good reason for this choice as well.
  • jmt_ 4y ago
    I believe this is a common issue with automated copyright detection systems. Companies don't seem to care much as the grief caused by a false positive is almost completely offloaded to the user.
• prepend 4y ago
  I would like for Dropbox to not know the contents of my dropbox. Although in the olden days it was nice in that if they detected a matching hash of your file, it didn’t actually upload it, you just had it. So that was super handy. For pirating as well as for situations where I have the same file in multiple location. I legitimately have disk images in dropbox because cheap storage and having them immediately sync and be backed up was nice to save on bandwidth.