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Self-Reliance (1841)(archive.vcu.edu)
62 points by rhaksw 4y ago|8 comments
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That is indeed a pretty extreme position for a 3-million member sub to take. And r/conservative is essentially doing the same thing [1]. I wouldn't see a problem with all of that if people knew their comments were being removed. B
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> The Internet has always been full of private fora where people limit the range of discussion. That's fine, but Reddit shows users their removed comments as if they're not removed [1]. Users don't have a chance to migrate
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> Right, we're (a) not training people properly and a young enough age and (b) we're not telling them the truth - so they end up cynical or misinformed or both. Could be. With or without education, many people are shocked to di
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> The problem as I see it is that far too few people are interested in seeing that these issues are solved and even fewer are actively engaged in doing something about solving them. I forgive people for not knowing. The worst mod abuses
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> I cannot see how these problematic matters are going to be fixed unless the individuals who have the power to affect the lives of others are brought to account by one means or another. It's happening, even while they are anonymous
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> I only wish I knew how we could solve it. The public sphere changed with the advent of social media. At first, corporations and governments found themselves at the whims of people, and then it flipped. I believe we may be able to bring
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Absolutely there is overlap. Comcast owns NBC, and where there is not direct ownership, they will partner to offer zero-rated content that won't count against your metered and speed-capped bandwidth.
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Such approved foreign involvement in our elections may raise some eyebrows. It certainly did raise mine when I read it. I knew about the IRA and Cambridge Analytica, and I didn't realize it had become a veritable industry in the Philip
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It's not a stretch. Those who would do away with net neutrality are the same who seek special powers to ostensibly protect copyright. The reality is their measures will harm both internet commerce and freedom. They're luddites who
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Well for one thing, as I understand it, it is a term the antagonizers use themselves to train each other. But also, a false flag pins blame on someone else in order to change public opinion. Cracking consensus is any disguised action and do
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People might be for it if they discover political candidates can outsource social media campaigns to lower-wage countries, > And with the rise of social media, the Philippines has become a capital for a new breed of digital era manipulat
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Both are corporate lobbying against people & tech. It's a pattern, > The SMART Copyright Act is a thinly veiled proxy war over mandatory filtering of copyrighted works. . . mandatory filters are error-prone in ways that hurt con
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The book is great. Here three paragraphs I highlighted, from different sections. You can check if they resonate with you. > And it’s not just conflicts or elections that are affected. I see people I have known my whole life slip away fro
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ISPs may also be lobbying us through social media. Peter Pomerantsev makes a strong case that moderated forums are for sale in This Is Not Propaganda [1]. For example, he mentions "consensus cracking", > There are instruction
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Comcast has attempted to dismantle net neutrality at least for the last 15 years, and it's arguable they have allies in government. They even paid seat warmers to fill up a FCC hearing so it would seem like nobody was countering their
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by rhaksw 4y ago
I just posted this here [1]. Is moderation reviewable? One issue with other platforms is you often cannot see what they have removed. On reddit they show you your removed comments as if they're not removed when you're logged in. T
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by rhaksw 5y ago
Good question. Research suggests providing removal explanations [on posts] results in less work for mods [1]. And more research into reddit moderation is on the way [2]. The first time silent removals were discussed on reddit was apparently
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To say nothing of communication issues caused by social media users themselves, the platforms can have built-in miscommunication. For example, on reddit your removed comments are shown to you as if they are live, as shown here [1]. You ca
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I completely agree. Nonetheless, the research I've seen up to now has come from computing labs, and I was speculating that access or familiarity with the data may contribute to that.
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That would be amazing if those fields would dive in but I don't think that's happened yet. Such researchers would need to pair with a coder. FWIW, this is the result of a google scholar search for "reddit moderation": h
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> There are enough significant impact conferences like FOCS or the TCS+ symposium, which have no/minimal corporate funding. In the initial years, even ICLR didn't have corporate sponsorship. That actually does not stop people f
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The article suggests conference funding influences what gets researched, which is the wider concern. The link is between conference funding and research. Reddit moderation is an example of something I feel is underresearched. Thanks for you
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I completely agree with the concern over CS research being too heavily influenced by industry. An area I feel is underresearched is social media moderation, especially in the more open systems like reddit where anyone can moderate. There ha
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I'm not sure that's justification for continuing the policy. Most people are surprised to discover mods can "remove your comment and it still shows up on your side as if it wasn't removed" . [1] Reddit gave mods th
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Reddit also stopped showing users the red background on their mod-removed comments. So when you're logged in it looks like your comment is live [1]. You can try it here [2]. I once tried looking through their archived code base to find
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> The report says there is little evidence that calls for major platforms to remove offending content will limit scientific misinformation’s harms and warns such measures could even drive it to harder-to-address corners of the internet a
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Thank you for sharing your experience! I think it would go a long way towards building more civil communities if reddit would stop showing users their removed comments as if they have not been removed. In other words, let users see the red
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Moderation should be fully reviewable. I made a site to do this for reddit [1]. As of this hour, user pages [2] work best because the archive service is down. Subreddit history pages [3], which show where the community and mods have disagre
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Upvoters cannot see removed comments. You can try it here [1] yourself to see the effect. It's also possible for moderators to add a username to a subreddit's automod config to silently remove all their comments, and that would be

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