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Before gamergate was even a thing, some jerks in the atheist/skeptic community created a blockbot whose explicit purpose was to game the Twitter automatic suspe
by Torgo 12y ago
Before gamergate was even a thing, some jerks in the atheist/skeptic community created a blockbot whose explicit purpose was to game the Twitter automatic suspension algorithm to boot people off Twitter they didn't like (usually other people in the atheist/skeptic community they didn't like.) So it's not hypothetical, if Twitter creates anti-abuse mechanism, other people will find a way to game that mechanism to punish other people. So it is always worth talking about.
- roguecoder 12y agoFor me that blockbot is the only thing that made Twitter usable, and it turned it into the best community on the internet. I don't care if the purpose was some nefarious scheme anymore than I care if Uber was intending to destroy cab companies: both are useful, and so awesome.