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Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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It's not a mistake. It's a PR strategy. Social media companies are training people to blame content and each other for the effects that are produced by design, algorithms and moderation. This reassigns blame away from things that those companies control (but don't want to change) to things that aren't considered "their fault".

Its really all media not just social media that profits from propaganda. Turn on CNN. You might agree with what they are saying versus what the talking heads on fox news are saying, but they use the same state of constant panic style of reporting because that works really well to fix eyeballs on advertisements, both overt ones and the more subtle ones that happen during the programming.

That is very much a problem in the US (AFAIK) where news and entertainment are merged. Other countries have laws to ensure that news are presented emotionless and factual.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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This is solved by allowing people to "hire" others as their moderators.

Why can't I "hire" (join) a social network that preemptively mods according to my preferences?

I am working on finclout which does this.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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The guy is literally describing how to shut down discussion on topics by escalating behaviours around it.

The great problem with this approach is that there are very many groups happy to see discussion of divers topics quashed and they're already familiar with how to get it done on platforms like Twitter.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Like I can't believe that this reasoning doesn't resonate with people even outside of advertisers. Who wants to be on a social network where if one of your posts breaks containment you spend the next few weeks getting harassed by people who just hurl slurs and insults at you. This is already right now a problem on Twitter and opening the floodgates is the opposite of helping.

This reasoning is generally lost on people whom are generally not a target for slurs and harassment.

Well, my experience is that I post something or reply to someone that I don't get any feedback, so how could I ?

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Why are you adding () after "like"? Havent seen that convention before, so I am unaware of the meaning.

There may have been an emoji or Unicode character between the parens that was stripped by HN.

correct, it was a "thumbs up" emoji
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