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I'm sure what they have in mind is pretty well-considered, however, the pitfalls I outlined above still remain. For instance, different people have different id
by pervycreeper 11y ago
I'm sure what they have in mind is pretty well-considered, however, the pitfalls I outlined above still remain. For instance, different people have different ideas of what a `reasonable person' is. Generally, one which is pretty close to themselves! Also, ``systemic and/or continued'' also means different things to different people. For instance, the opponents of Gamer-Gate claimed (and perhaps genuinely believed) themselves to be targets of a `harassment campaign', when in fact, they were receiving disagreement and mockery from many different sources, each only communicating once or a handful of times. [1]
So, that wording of the policy still leaves plenty of leeway for the sort of abuse I described above.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity
- braythwayt 11y agoThat’s the way laws work: They can’t be applied by algorithm, you need judgment. If you don’t trust the judges, you can’t work around that by writing laws so explicit that they can’t be misapplied. Doesn’t work. If the issue here is that you don’t trust Reddit, we should debate that. I’d say that’s a much bigger problem than not trusting the way that policy is worded.
- EdiX 11y agoThe problem with censorship rules is that it's very hard to trust anyone with them because the act of enforcing the rule removes all evidence of rule violation from public scrutiny.