“Like” at Your Own Risk

I had to go read the actual paper to figure out how it worked. It's "updating link previews without visible notifications while retaining social capital". So you do a redirect and then that changes what was originally liked.

Re: “Like” at Your Own Risk

#5

Post by sundvor » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 1:14 PM UTC

I have thought about this before, even without the clever hack indicated here:

Likes ought to drop off after an edit, or be clearly pointing to the previous version after any edit. IE they need to reflect staleness, and posts must better reflect that there's version history. In this day and age we ought to be able to differentiate between grammar/spell checks and complete rewrites, and update ux accordingly.

Another one is the ability for someone to change privacy level of a post from private to public. So that risky like that you thought was a safe one among friends could then be opened for everyone to see.

Re: “Like” at Your Own Risk

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Post by DavidVoid » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 1:26 PM UTC

You seed this kind of thing used by spammers on reddit from time to time. They'll get an upvoted comment which is very visible to other users and then edit it to include a link to some shady website.

Re: “Like” at Your Own Risk

#7

Post by Brave-Steak » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 1:56 PM UTC

sundvor wrote: post #5

I have thought about this before, even without the clever hack indicated here: Likes ought to drop off after an edit, or be clearly pointing to the previous version after any edit. IE they need to reflect staleness, and posts must better reflect that there's version history. In this day and age we ought to be able to differentiate between grammar/spell checks and complete rewrites, and update ux accordingly. Another…

> Another one is the ability for someone to change privacy level of a post from private to public. So that risky like that you thought was a safe one among friends could then be opened for everyone to see.

This seems like a difficult problem in general and reminds me of this episode of Hidden Brain (https://www.npr.org/2019/09/06/758281834/you-cant-hit-unsend...). Where sharing shocking/"inappropriate" memes in a private WhatsApp led to everybody involved losing their spots in university.

Re: “Like” at Your Own Risk

#8

Post by sebastianconcpt » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 2:14 PM UTC

Scary o.O

But is it the author editing the post who change it or what?

Re: “Like” at Your Own Risk

#9

Post by DarkWiiPlayer » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 2:33 PM UTC

sebastianconcpt wrote: post #8

Scary o.O But is it the author editing the post who change it or what?

Simple example:

- You upload an image of a cute cat to your webserver

- You post the link to the image on some social network (using a throwaway account)

- You send the link to the post to a friend, who likes the post

- You switch out the image on the server for a photo of hitler (url stays the same)

- You wait a day for all the caches involved to update

- You act disgusted and ask your friend wtf they were thinking when they liked that image

Re: “Like” at Your Own Risk

#10

Post by soylentcola » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 2:57 PM UTC

I seem to remember doing some prank-ish thing like this in the early days of Facebook.

Create an activity or whatever that you "liked" (ex: camping) and friends would see that "soylentcola liked camping". They would also like camping and then eventually you would change the name of that tag/activity/whatever to something like getting kicked in the nuts so that now it tells people that "John Smith likes getting kicked in the nuts".

I honestly don't remember the specifics as it's been years since we got our laughs out of this for a few minutes (hell, for all I know this was on MySpace and not Facebook. Really don't remember).