rofl I‘m also blocked
Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
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#62In 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 hav…
Killfiles worked for usenet
Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#63As 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.
What about Memphis, Egypt?
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#64Just once? Not even three times and then it comes, like the Candyman or the Babadook?
It’s Zalgo without the text corruption
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#65I 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”
Hey, it's hilarious. It's too tempting not to join the banned people party.
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#66As a fan of the University of Memphis basketball team, this is not the weekend I'd like this to happen. Though with how our weekend is going maybe it's a good thing...
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#67rofl I‘m also blocked
me too
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#68Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
#69Twitter 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”…
What shocks me is there is no warning that setting a date of birth is a dangerous action.
The company is just hostile to its users.