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The concept of a "community note" never made sense to me. The "community" itself isn't really one entity with a coherent position on any particular matter. The

The concept of a "community note" never made sense to me. The "community" itself isn't really one entity with a coherent position on any particular matter. The "community" is just a byproduct of people coming together to engage in discussion. If somebody wanted to try to refute what somebody else claimed, it should have been done at an individual level, through the existing discussion mechanisms (a reply, or a new tweet, or an off-Twitter article/video, and so on).

hombre_fatal 3y ago
I appreciate the idea of community notes. The problem is how widely a shit-tier or dangerous or bullshit tweet can spread, yet few people are going to click into it to read the replies, and there's no guarantee that a tweet that goes "Um, this is BS and here's why: <link>" is going to appear at the top. There's probably a better implementation of community notes. Like perhaps a way to vote existing replies or quote replies into community-note-status which you might agree with. But the value is showing a countervailing message inline with the original tweet since that's all people are going to read.
- AnthonyMouse 3y ago
  > Like perhaps a way to vote existing replies or quote replies into community-note-status which you might agree with. If only social media sites had some kind of voting or points system that contributes to visibility? The basic problem here is that high quality moderation is extremely expensive but low quality moderation outrages its victims and is susceptible to manipulation by partisans and SEO scum. As far as I can tell the best solution is to make filtering modular so that it's independent of the hosting site. Then the site doesn't get dumped on for screwing it up and if you don't like some particular solution you personally can switch to another one without losing the network effect, or try your hand at doing it yourself to see how much fun it can be. But controlling the filter through which everybody sees everything is valuable and it's hard to get anyone in a position of power to give that up.
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hombre_fatal 3y ago

I appreciate the idea of community notes. The problem is how widely a shit-tier or dangerous or bullshit tweet can spread, yet few people are going to click into it to read the replies, and there's no guarantee that a tweet that goes "Um, this is BS and here's why: <link>" is going to appear at the top. There's probably a better implementation of community notes. Like perhaps a way to vote existing replies or quote replies into community-note-status which you might agree with. But the value is showing a countervailing message inline with the original tweet since that's all people are going to read.

AnthonyMouse 3y ago
> Like perhaps a way to vote existing replies or quote replies into community-note-status which you might agree with. If only social media sites had some kind of voting or points system that contributes to visibility? The basic problem here is that high quality moderation is extremely expensive but low quality moderation outrages its victims and is susceptible to manipulation by partisans and SEO scum. As far as I can tell the best solution is to make filtering modular so that it's independent of the hosting site. Then the site doesn't get dumped on for screwing it up and if you don't like some particular solution you personally can switch to another one without losing the network effect, or try your hand at doing it yourself to see how much fun it can be. But controlling the filter through which everybody sees everything is valuable and it's hard to get anyone in a position of power to give that up.
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