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Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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Post by scarface74 »

freen wrote: post #6
lapcat wrote: post #2

Delay decisions, set up a committee... wow, that was fast, he's already becoming Jack. [EDIT:] The problem is that a "council with widely diverse viewpoints" is not going to come to consensus on moderation. They're inevitably going to disagree, just like in politics. So then what? How is lack of consensus not the inevitable outcome of a widely diverse committee?

Hard problems, they are hard. “I can build a twitter clone in a weekend” is famous for a reason.

Of course any senior dev can. Isn’t being able to design Twitter a prerequisite to passing a System Design interview at any BigTech company?

Edit: I was being sarcastic. I meant to add /s

Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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Post by darkwizard42 »

scarface74 wrote: post #11
freen wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hard problems, they are hard. “I can build a twitter clone in a weekend” is famous for a reason.

Of course any senior dev can. Isn’t being able to design Twitter a prerequisite to passing a System Design interview at any BigTech company? Edit: I was being sarcastic. I meant to add /s

I think what the parent comment is talking about and what you might have missed out on (though maybe your remark is tongue in cheek as well) is the challenge isn't building something with Twitter's functionality, but building something with its feature fit, timing, and growth. The core platform (while impressive engineering helps keep it running) is a fairly rudimentary idea, but execution is always a totally different story.

Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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Post by minimaxir »

lapcat wrote: post #2

Delay decisions, set up a committee... wow, that was fast, he's already becoming Jack. [EDIT:] The problem is that a "council with widely diverse viewpoints" is not going to come to consensus on moderation. They're inevitably going to disagree, just like in politics. So then what? How is lack of consensus not the inevitable outcome of a widely diverse committee?

The best theory is that this analogous to Facebook's Oversight Committee, whose purpose in practice is to serve as a scapegoat for the really tough or unpopular moderation decisions. (e.g. Trump reinstatement, which ironically the Facebook Oversight Committee refused to rule on)

Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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Post by dang »

listenallyall wrote: post #3

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> The HN story about Babylon Bee is off the top 5 pages despite generating 100+ points and 300 comments in 4 hours. HN seems to have its own "moderation council" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33371795

It set off the flamewar detector.

Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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Post by blast »

lapcat wrote: post #9
listenallyall wrote: post #3

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The account itself was not suspended: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33373377 It may or may not be suspended from tweeting. There are still no tweets since March.

The post you're linking to says that it was suspended.

Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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Post by dang »

superchroma wrote: post #5
listenallyall wrote: post #3

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There's no real point discussing the way the site is run - they're not interested in user input and a lot of people like the idea of "reddit for professionals and VC bros". Causing trouble will just net you getting rate limited or a shadow ban.

Of course we're interested in user input. I spend most of my time talking to HN users in one form or another.

Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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Post by lapcat »

blast wrote: post #15
lapcat wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The account itself was not suspended: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33373377 It may or may not be suspended from tweeting. There are still no tweets since March.

The post you're linking to says that it was suspended.

Suspended from posting.

Compare the Wayback Machine link from that comment to @realDonaldTrump, which still says "Account suspended".

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