CogentHedgehog

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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
That's actually the opposite of what the evidence shows. Masks - even crappy ones, with poor mask protocol - dramatically cut infections https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/modeling-the-impact-... C
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Your claims do not reflect what the article and the evidence it cites show. To quote: > Cowling told me that it’s better to call these “short-range aerosols,” as that communicates the nature of the threat more accurately: Most of these
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Short-distance aerosol transmission changes things a bit: * Social distancing isn't enough to guarantee safety in indoors spaces: bad news for bars, clubs, gyms, concerts, and restaurants * Outdoors spaces are probably safer than we pr
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Looking at the positives here though: it's a sign of progress and maturity that you recognize you made mistakes that unintentionally aided bullies, and that you're trying to help others not make those same mistakes. So few people
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Similar experience. I am a reddit mod for a quite large community, and the ugly truth is that a lot of bad-faith arguments are being used to provide cover for simple bullying. This a reality that is deeply uncomfortable for people who shar
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
An excellent point. Facebook's demographics now skew heavily towards Boomers who have lots of money to throw around. These boomers are never going to leave Facebook based on some "delete Facebook!!!" comment on Hacker News o
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Yeah but you forget that TikTok is effectively spyware for the Chinese government packaged to look like a social media app.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Most of Facebook's advertising by total volume comes from large numbers of small advertisers. That's why their stock is up -- people didn't realize how small the net impact of a few large brands is on their total revenues. W
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
People assume "mod powertripping" too quickly. The reality is that most of the moderation is accomplished via automation, primarily Automoderator rules on Reddit. The volume is far to high to manage by hand -- it varies by commun
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
This, more or less. Even if someone wanted to powertrip like crazy they literally wouldn't be able to do much. Delete 100 comments? Wait 15 minutes and another 100 will replace them.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Facebook is taking a firm stance NOW. But I imagine they will end up singing a different tune if enough companies join the boycott to drop their ad revenues by 20%. Cuts in ad buys directly hurt their profits, because ad sellers (and data
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
I hear this claim a lot, but it forgets that Facebook has 1.7 BILLION daily active users and still growing. They won't miss a few users here and there: users are the product, not the customer. 100 million people could leave Facebook a
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
This reminds me of XML Database from back in the day... except JSON instead of XML.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
As moderator of a top-100 subreddit: this is SO incredibly accurate. You must be another moderator of one of the big subreddits. 90% of my work is nuking flamewars, spammers, trolls, and low-effort meme replies. Without automation and hum
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Didn't the Facebook app get in trouble for hoovering up user data too? Seems like that's already setting a pretty low bar for privacy.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Transparency helps with normal "people problems." The opposite is true with bots, spammers, paid trolls, and other attempts to subvert the platform itself. It's the same reason why open source projects try to fix security vul
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
I'm a reddit moderator for one of the 50 most active subreddits. My experience as a reddit moderator has been that users break down into 4 groups: 1. Normal people that mostly follow the rules. This is BY FAR the largest group, and th
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
This is the best argument I've seen for making it publicly anonymous which moderator took a specific action and maintaining a large pool of moderators. Bad actors can harass a community as a whole (and they do) but it's much har
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
I like this idea too. Also temporary bans are good for offering a cool-down period for users who generally are constructive but tend to lose their tempers from time to time.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
I became a mod for one of the larger subreddit communities (10M+ subscribers) for similar reasons: I enjoyed the community and wanted to help out. Same platform, but the experience couldn't be more different: we spend almost all our ti