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This scandal should be a wake up call for anyone who reads or writes comment on the internet, including folks on this site. As good as the moderators here are,
by nluken 1y ago
This scandal should be a wake up call for anyone who reads or writes comment on the internet, including folks on this site. As good as the moderators here are, there's no avoiding the deluge of bots that have rapidly proliferated across the internet. Post history, while not a silver bullet, might be a decent way of spotting the bots for now, but in time that too will be harder to detect.
- pavel_lishin 1y agoI've stopped commenting on Reddit awhile ago, after they took a lot of actions that were hostile to the type of user I am. But now, even reading it is basically an exercise in fan-fiction curation. It's still mildly interesting to read things like r/pettyrevenge, or r/amitheasshole, but I fully recognize that they're the equivalent of watching a daytime soap - including the fact that most of them are fiction, and it's very hard to distinguish between real stories and ones made up by people or bots.
- apercu 1y agoI’m surprised you can still read Reddit. I tried to continue the music forums (the ones for musicians) in a not logged in state, but I’m so turned off by some crazy percentage of the content on the entire platform being fake. I would not be surprised by a future lawsuit where upwards of 90% of the content being artificial in some way.
- jsheard 1y agoTo misquote that one New Yorker comic: "Yes, we destroyed all trust in online communities forever. But for a beautiful moment in time we extracted a shitload of money from investors." https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995 https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
- 6510 1y agoHow much for that social fabric?
- woleium 1y agoI think we will find a way. likely something that allows us to build a stronger universal profile with time, or quicker strong profile with verification from e.g. online banks. It'll have to be for the public good, i.e. not for profit, likely funded by something like icann i guess. I doubt a decentralized trust approach will work.
- _bin_ 1y agoI'd argue they're responsible for killing the environment on reddit years before. A tiny cadre of radical powerjannies screwing up all the large subreddits people see, with a set pattern of take something over -> complain they don't like it -> decide they'll institute changes to "fix" things.