Fake girlfriend, revisited

Post by zimpenfish » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:20 AM UTC

guard-of-terra wrote: post #25

lmm wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to work in the phone industry. If you're allowing users to message each other you need human moderators, otherwise you'll get death threats and bizarre fantasies carefully worded to get around any automated filter. If you're going to pay a human to read every message you might as well pay them to write them, it takes a similar amount of time and usually means better service.

"Moderated dating" is an interesting idea by itself. Where both sides have to conform to a very strict etiquette (platform rules), until they both decide to move their relationship to next level anyway. I can see how it can appeal to some people.

Post by 4pkjai » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:38 AM UTC

Post by geon » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:46 AM UTC

dineshp2 wrote: post #31

keithpeter wrote: post #5

OA quote: ""lower league English football" wasn't available" Possibly explains the recurring need for a fake one. Serious contribution: bots faking it with other bots generating large numbers of apparently real social profiles. Not just gf/bf whatever but other forms of relationship (fake boss asking for more work this weekend as a cover for...). Ideal chaff for the surveillance society.

It wouldn't be too hard for the surveillance society to distinguish the real profiles and bots(Edit: or people pretending to be different people). The US Government has built up such far reaching surveillance tools, of which we have just seen the tip of the iceberg, that this chaff that you are talking about wouldn't be chaff at all.

Post by geon » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:50 AM UTC

ilkkao wrote: post #6

If the boyfriend/girlfriend ratio is 60/40, they could almost just connect these people together.

Post by _0ffh » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 11:00 AM UTC

guard-of-terra wrote: post #25

lmm wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to work in the phone industry. If you're allowing users to message each other you need human moderators, otherwise you'll get death threats and bizarre fantasies carefully worded to get around any automated filter. If you're going to pay a human to read every message you might as well pay them to write them, it takes a similar amount of time and usually means better service.

"Moderated dating" is an interesting idea by itself. Where both sides have to conform to a very strict etiquette (platform rules), until they both decide to move their relationship to next level anyway. I can see how it can appeal to some people.