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This would be more like shadow banning but in a way that can never be proven, or even detected in the first place. The post would just be surfaced less. Since
by pegasus 4y ago
This would be more like shadow banning but in a way that can never be proven, or even detected in the first place. The post would just be surfaced less. Since there's no visibility on what gets surfaced when, it's a way to nudge public opinion on different issues without any accountability.
- mgraczyk 4y agoYou can do this on Reddit. People do it all the time https://www.reddit.com/r/modhelp/comments/1px939/hiding_posts_from_the_sub_but_keeping_the_link/ https://www.reddit.com/r/modhelp/comments/1px939/hiding_post...
- pegasus 4y agoIt's not at all the same. The behavior you refer to can be checked and proved by anyone as long as they know what to look for. Whereas the FB "tweak to the algorithm" discussed here cannot. This is exactly what I was saying above, I don't see what's so hard to understand here. Maybe, since you admit to have worked on said algorithm, it's a case of Upton Sinclair's dictum "“It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it"?
- mgraczyk 4y agoNo, it's that you haven't worked on ranking systems so you probably don't know that it's also easy to check and prove by anybody who "knows what to look for".