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I've never really understood the point of community notes. If the idea is to put a social/economic cost on lying it clearly doesn't function. The same people ju

I've never really understood the point of community notes. If the idea is to put a social/economic cost on lying it clearly doesn't function. The same people just continually get community noted, it doesn't harm their popularity of position. So it doesn't function to improve the platform in any way. It feels a lot to me like the lift close button. Idiots get a kick out of smashing that button but we all know it doesn't do anything. It just sits there in the place of something that should actually incentivize better contributions to the discourse. Take Ian Miles Cheong for example, his latest community notes is just a straight up baselessly slandering a war hero. Did he delete the tweet? Did he retract or anything? Has he faced any consequences whatsoever for his lie? Do we think for a second that his followers read and beleive the correction? No, in fact he's part of X's monetization programme, you can pay him $5 a month to lie to you about dead Ukrainians. Yet here we are smashing that door close button. Meanwhile there's the other side of it which is like President Biden tweets out some statistic on the labor force and the community note is like "Well yes this is literally correct and we're not disputing it, but the mob in charge of this tool doesn't like Biden so we're going to attach an opposing political message under every one of his tweets". Now that actually does disincentivize Biden from using the platform. So what are we even doing here? If you control a decent sized mob on twitter you can attach your political messaging to every tweet of your political opponents? That sounds like a great dynamic from driving one side of the political divide off the platform entirely.

RamblingCTO 3y ago
I think it's an important step in spreading fake news anyhow. People not familiar with the topic just stumbling upon this tweet will also see a correction via the community notes. That's the important part. Not putting cost on lying.
EchoDesertRobot 3y ago
From https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/about/introduction https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/about/introducti... > Community Notes doesn't work by majority rules. To identify notes that are helpful to a wide range of people, notes require agreement between contributors who have sometimes disagreed in their past ratings. This helps prevent one-sided ratings. More info can be found there. The algorithm itself is open-source so you can audit it if you want. The raw data itself is also available for download so it can be scrutinized.

RamblingCTO 3y ago

I think it's an important step in spreading fake news anyhow. People not familiar with the topic just stumbling upon this tweet will also see a correction via the community notes. That's the important part. Not putting cost on lying.

EchoDesertRobot 3y ago

From https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/about/introduction https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/about/introducti... > Community Notes doesn't work by majority rules. To identify notes that are helpful to a wide range of people, notes require agreement between contributors who have sometimes disagreed in their past ratings. This helps prevent one-sided ratings. More info can be found there. The algorithm itself is open-source so you can audit it if you want. The raw data itself is also available for download so it can be scrutinized.