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> One of the first products I worked on was polls. And one of the big discussions was around the tradeoffs between integrity and privacy – keeping logs [or each
by prirun 4y ago
> One of the first products I worked on was polls. And one of the big discussions was around the tradeoffs between integrity and privacy – keeping logs [or each user’s vote] or not. We landed on the side of privacy,” Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former Head of Trust and Safety who resigned this month, told Rolling Stone.
> “Polls are more prone to manipulation than almost anything else [on Twitter].
IMO, a responsible engineer would not have implemented polls if he knew they were going to be shit. Or they need a very big disclaimer: "Polls allow bots and users to vote multiple times so are not statistically accurate." If that's the case, it's stupid to have them at all.