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All Twitter users in the US will start to see crowdsourced fact checks on tweets

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Re: All Twitter users in the US will start to see crowdsourced fact checks on tweets

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Post by tjpnz »

ketzo wrote: post #9
krapp wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have enough followers, what prevents you from harassing another user anyway? Crowdsourced, targeted harassment already happens all the time. This seems like it would just be a more convoluted and troublesome means to an already available end.

But this would be like putting an official “sanctioned by Twitter” badge on that harassment.

Placement would also be an issue under such a scenario. Normally you would need to scroll a bit before seeing "ratios" and other stupid shit but now that's guaranteed to be above the fold. Presumably this will also work if I've chosen to restrict replies.

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Post by bombcar »

mattw2121 wrote: post #14

I was recently invited to be a lead on Nextdoor (I know, I know) and accepted so that I could peek behind the curtain. Their process is that any flagged content is voted on by leads to Leave it, Possibly Remove, or Remove. What I've observed is that posts that completely break the rules still have a 50/50 split. My point being that many people are not able to objectively look at something and make a decision. Their o…

Slashdot had moderation and metamoderation and it worked ... for awhile. Part of the reason was you could still browse at -1 if you wanted to, so there were chances for things that got "attacked" to bubble back up.

Not sure if it helped kill it or if that was incidental.

The "rules" always have interpretations and most people don't steelman posts that disagree with them.

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Post by mikebonnell »

tjpnz wrote: post #3

If I had enough followers and was part of this program what prevents me from harassing another user via notes and getting my followers to mark my note as helpful?

As far as I can tell from testing Birdwatch earlier is that you can't proactively choose new notes and can only act on ones that are designated for you.

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Post by MichaelCollins »

bombcar wrote: post #22
mattw2121 wrote: post #14

I was recently invited to be a lead on Nextdoor (I know, I know) and accepted so that I could peek behind the curtain. Their process is that any flagged content is voted on by leads to Leave it, Possibly Remove, or Remove. What I've observed is that posts that completely break the rules still have a 50/50 split. My point being that many people are not able to objectively look at something and make a decision. Their o…

Slashdot had moderation and metamoderation and it worked ... for awhile. Part of the reason was you could still browse at -1 if you wanted to, so there were chances for things that got "attacked" to bubble back up. Not sure if it helped kill it or if that was incidental. The "rules" always have interpretations and most people don't steelman posts that disagree with them.

Slashdot's moderation/metamoderation worked fairly well at policing the tone of the conversation, but was worthless for factual accuracy. Troll, flamebait and funny moderations were accurately applied, but the insightful moderation was given mostly given to comments which confirmed the biases of the community.

Past tense because I mostly stopped going to slashdot when cmdrtaco left. I don't really know how the moderation has been going since then.

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Post by aschearer »

buscoquadnary wrote: post #18

Wow crowdsourcing truth that's super great. I see no problems at all with this. It's not like angry partisans on one side would create and push fake stories and news about another horrible atrocity that person of an unpopular group that would lead to mass violence and genocide. Nothing like that has ever happenned with social media tools in countries like Mynamar. I for one am worried though about what if bad people…

Edgy.

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Post by robszumski »

I saw one of these recently on a tweet about an Amtrak line between LA and San Diego being shutdown. Takeaway: they were giving up on the line.

The note on the tweet had the additional context that it was temporary and there was a bus substitute. The takeaway is completely different with this context. I appreciated it.

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