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Sounds to me, a better approach would be transparent but automated moderation. Automated moderation would need some way to reliably answer the following questi
by xg15 4y ago
Sounds to me, a better approach would be transparent but automated moderation.
Automated moderation would need some way to reliably answer the following questions:
- are two accounts controlled by the same user?
- are two posts talking about the same topic?
Then an approach would be to publicly issue a "content ban": User X is prohibited from talking about topic Y. Then use bots to enforce the ban and identity sock puppets or alt accounts if the user tried to evade the ban.
I think with the current progress in language models, we have a much better chance to answer those questions with usable accuracy.
- ericbarrett 4y agoI've seen this tried before. My thoughts: First, no language model (or human judgement) will ever be perfect. Therefore you will eventually have a false positive, and a respectful contributor will be banned. Now you must either: a) Provide an appeals process—which takes time and effort, and will surely be abused to the maximum extent possible by the maniacally aggrieved. b) Or, if the judgement is final, you have implemented undisputable algorithmic perma-bans (Google's much-hated approach). So you're not really solving the original issue, which is the amount of time and resources that disturbed individuals can consume when confronted. Second, this approach does nothing to prevent external issues like legal harassment, doxxing, real-life staking, and so forth.