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Very naive way of thinking that there must be a secret channel or cabal. Think more about how memes spread in the internet - there is no “meme administration”
by ozim 3y ago
Very naive way of thinking that there must be a secret channel or cabal.
Think more about how memes spread in the internet - there is no “meme administration” that picks what is funny and what not.
You still have to make difference between trends of normal hashtags and evil hashtags how do you do that? Also how do you even think there would be explosion when bad actors are aware they have to hide.
Main point is simple heuristics won’t work and you don’t have to be evil mastermind to circumvent them.
- handoflixue 3y agoOkay, but why can't the moderators monitor this spread the same way the users do? > how do you do that? I already listed a few examples. If it was unclear, the other part of the process is "have a human check the hashtag", sorry > Also how do you even think there would be explosion when bad actors are aware they have to hide. You'd be really amazed how much low-hanging fruit there is here. If someone is posting publicly on social media AND using hashtags, they're not exactly in the top half of OpSec
- ozim 3y agoTo be fair I was arguing assumptions "all can be fixed automatically" and that "all can be fixed, all bad guys can be caught". I do agree that there is a lot that can be caught with a bit more effort and that Meta does not really want to spend resources because it doesn't earn them money. But also I argue that there still will be a lot of bad stuff and there is not enough money/resources to stop all.
- handoflixue 3y agoI think we pretty much agree there - we're never going to wipe it all out, but I do think our current spending level is missing out on a lot of low-hanging fruit that could easily be eliminated if management cared to