Can the word appear in a phrase and lock the account?
grep has finally become sentient
Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
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Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#52Works as intended? I wonder if this is due to Memphis' association with racism, and it is an artifact of them trying to shut down the conversation about it becoming too overt by accident, instead of sneaky shadowbans, de-trending, and throttling.
You're saying that twitter employees have a nefarious plan to ... throttle conversations about the american south?
Maybe not nefarious, just inept.
You don't get censored on Chinese social media for discussing Xi Jinping's conduct in good, or bad light, it get censored for just discussing it.
Most censors don't give a fuck evaluating what they are told to censor, they just ctrl+f click click...
I don't doubt the attitude is shared across the pacific in the tech industry.
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#53Twitter has increasingly slid into user-hostile territory. I moderate /r/Twitter on reddit and we have a pinned thread just showing nothing but complaint after complaint, because content moderation is a failure when you attempt to scale it. We'd like to get Twitter Comms to address it at some point, but the company is opaque. It's just nuts.
Just a small anecdote: I created a company account, then set the birthday to ~1 year ago, when the company was registered. Everything was fine for 5 minutes, then my account has been blocked with a notification telling me that I need to be at least 13 years old to use Twitter. I can still login but cannot access the settings to change the birthday (or just remove it) as a screen “fix your age or prove your identity” is blocking me from doing anything. I used their support form to send a proof of ID a few times but the account gets blocked again every time.
Somehow twitter believes that 1 years old are trying to join their platform. That was more than 6 months ago, and still no solution ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#54I love the sheer number of hacker news commenters saying “Well I tried it, seems to work”. At what level do you guys go “I’m just going to assume those 10 other guys aren’t lying”
that's actually consistent with a hacker attitude
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#55In general it seems like moderating platforms with millions/billions of users is a fool's errand, but is required to be attempted due to the level of centralization we've ended up with.
Regardless of how much of it is automated away via blackbox ML algorithms lacking transparency or via outsourcing to cheap labor that spends their days looking at terribly offensive and shocking content, the end result is going to have countless false positives, a difficult (if even possible) path for users to appeal, and a largely discontent userbase that constantly feels wronged from multiple angles.
Having millions of people with thousands of cultures, hundreds of languages, and countless niche styles of communication all be moderated by the same group of people (or the same algorithms) just isn't a good idea, and I hope that in the long-term we can find ways for communities to self-moderate in more decentralized manners to help improve this.
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#56Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#57I love the sheer number of hacker news commenters saying “Well I tried it, seems to work”. At what level do you guys go “I’m just going to assume those 10 other guys aren’t lying”
that's actually consistent with a hacker attitude
Whenever there is a bug, half the time the next question is "how do I replicate it?"
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#58As Twitter has been accepted as the ultimate arbiter of what may be said, I suggest the city of Memphis rename itself "Graceland," thus pleasing all the Elvis fans, boosting tourism, and avoiding sticky complications about legal technicalities.
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#59I got banned in 2008 for similarly silly (and unknowable) reasons. Posted zero, and I mean zero, spicy content. Maybe they didn’t like me posting a soy latte or a photo of a dog. But I got a ban for almost a week. And then suddenly it worked again, and they refused to say why or what triggered it. Maybe Jack or Ev got drunk and started hitting buttons. Zero transparency or apology, so I can only speculate.
Tried this one out- said the super private magic word, and got a ban. Appealed it to ask them why.
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#60Most of you tweeted that to see if the autolock works. Sounds like a you problem to me.
Can you explain that one? Lol