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I've been thinking about this for a while. I've seen many of these community notes - how exactly do these work ? Is a community note borne out of "most upvote

I've been thinking about this for a while. I've seen many of these community notes - how exactly do these work ? Is a community note borne out of "most upvoted" replies to a particular tweet ? If so, how does it go from a simple upvoted reply, to a "community note" ?

voxic11 3y ago
Basically if you are in good standing on the platform you can apply to be a contributor and if accepted you can submit and rate notes. The note which actually appears to everyone is selected out of the contributor submitted notes using some algorithm which is open source. > To find notes that are helpful to the broadest possible set of people, Community Notes takes into account not only how many contributors rated a note as helpful or unhelpful, but also whether people who rated it seem to come from different perspectives. https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/about/introduction https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/about/introducti...
iteratethis 3y ago
You need to sign up to become a community notes contributor. Then you can add notes, and if enough people from a diverse set of other contributors find it helpful, the community note will publicly appear. It's one of few things at Twitter that work shockingly well and reliable. I've never seen an obvious partisan community note. Other networks should embrace this.
- cactusplant7374 3y ago
  > It's one of few things at Twitter that work shockingly well and reliable. Elon doesn't think so. I would expect it to change soon. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1733882978781053383 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1733882978781053383
  - ceroxylon 3y ago
    The way he was corrected by a community note on that statement... kinda hilarious.
    - cactusplant7374 3y ago
      I don't think he knows who this guy is or even cares. He's just pandering. And it's pretty low effort pandering at that.
  - yreg 3y ago
    Not really, Elon is quite proud of community notes in general. His claim that a particular note was gamed means nothing.
    - cactusplant7374 3y ago
      He thought polls were awesome too but then he changed it to paid subscribers only because of “manipulation,” I think? Dramatic changes will likely happen.
TheCaptain4815 3y ago
If twitter survives, community notes could usher in a golden era of truth on the internet imo. On a recent podcast w/ lex friedman, Elon explained how Community Notes works and it's pretty ingenious. In short, from what I understand, each community notes contributor is vector mapped based on their biases/contributions. Now, the only way for a community note to appear is for contributors who typically disagree with each other (based on their vector mapping) to both sign off on that note. I'd imagine in the future (or maybe it's enabled now), these contributors would be "power ranked" so a newbie contributor couldn't community note a member of congress or something. As Elon said, this will lead to hoardes of people leaving twitter because they cannot handle community notes.
nomel 3y ago
Paper explaining it in detail: https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes/blob/main/birdwatch_paper_2022_10_27.pdf https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes/blob/main/birdwatc... It's somewhat adversarial, with the idea that if people who have disagreed in the past agree on a note, then it's probably true.

voxic11 3y ago

Basically if you are in good standing on the platform you can apply to be a contributor and if accepted you can submit and rate notes. The note which actually appears to everyone is selected out of the contributor submitted notes using some algorithm which is open source. > To find notes that are helpful to the broadest possible set of people, Community Notes takes into account not only how many contributors rated a note as helpful or unhelpful, but also whether people who rated it seem to come from different perspectives. https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/about/introduction https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/about/introducti...

iteratethis 3y ago

You need to sign up to become a community notes contributor. Then you can add notes, and if enough people from a diverse set of other contributors find it helpful, the community note will publicly appear. It's one of few things at Twitter that work shockingly well and reliable. I've never seen an obvious partisan community note. Other networks should embrace this.

cactusplant7374 3y ago
> It's one of few things at Twitter that work shockingly well and reliable. Elon doesn't think so. I would expect it to change soon. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1733882978781053383 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1733882978781053383
- ceroxylon 3y ago
  The way he was corrected by a community note on that statement... kinda hilarious.
  - cactusplant7374 3y ago
    I don't think he knows who this guy is or even cares. He's just pandering. And it's pretty low effort pandering at that.
- yreg 3y ago
  Not really, Elon is quite proud of community notes in general. His claim that a particular note was gamed means nothing.
  - cactusplant7374 3y ago
    He thought polls were awesome too but then he changed it to paid subscribers only because of “manipulation,” I think? Dramatic changes will likely happen.

TheCaptain4815 3y ago

If twitter survives, community notes could usher in a golden era of truth on the internet imo. On a recent podcast w/ lex friedman, Elon explained how Community Notes works and it's pretty ingenious. In short, from what I understand, each community notes contributor is vector mapped based on their biases/contributions. Now, the only way for a community note to appear is for contributors who typically disagree with each other (based on their vector mapping) to both sign off on that note. I'd imagine in the future (or maybe it's enabled now), these contributors would be "power ranked" so a newbie contributor couldn't community note a member of congress or something. As Elon said, this will lead to hoardes of people leaving twitter because they cannot handle community notes.

nomel 3y ago

Paper explaining it in detail: https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes/blob/main/birdwatch_paper_2022_10_27.pdf https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes/blob/main/birdwatc... It's somewhat adversarial, with the idea that if people who have disagreed in the past agree on a note, then it's probably true.