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Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by floobertoober »

astrange wrote: post #110
lolinder wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He carried all 7 swing states, 5 of them with what looks like it will be a 2% margin or more (and those five would be enough for a victory even without the other two). We lost both houses of Congress. It was a closer election than, say, 2008, but this was a resounding defeat. Saying otherwise is just sticking your head in the sand. The DNC needs to do some serious introspection.

The DNC barely exists and doesn't do anything. (Same for the RNC.) In a presidential year it's basically all geography and coattails from the presidential campaign. This one followed the post-inflation trend from every other country, if you need a single explanation for it.

I disagree - IMO the idea of having superdelegates is terrible. Any way of picking your party's candidate that deviates from how the candidate is selected in the general is setting yourself up for failure. IMO this is part of why the party has lost steam and alignment with their base. That does fall on the DNC, I think

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by ihsw »

astrange wrote: post #110
lolinder wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He carried all 7 swing states, 5 of them with what looks like it will be a 2% margin or more (and those five would be enough for a victory even without the other two). We lost both houses of Congress. It was a closer election than, say, 2008, but this was a resounding defeat. Saying otherwise is just sticking your head in the sand. The DNC needs to do some serious introspection.

The DNC barely exists and doesn't do anything. (Same for the RNC.) In a presidential year it's basically all geography and coattails from the presidential campaign. This one followed the post-inflation trend from every other country, if you need a single explanation for it.

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Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

Waterluvian wrote: post #54
paxys wrote: post #19

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The AT Protocol already accounts for this. There will eventually be community-built content labelers and classifers that you can subscribe to to rank and moderate your own feed however you want.

I have a feeling that this is going to create a weird thing of some magnitude where accounts end up on popular blacklists for poor reasons and have no recourse. I’m concerned that in time it might develop into zealous communities of samethink where you have to mind any slightly dissenting opinion or you’ll get blacklisted. I think what I’m thinking about is essentially that judges cannot be replaced by community opin…

It’s already happened, for instance there are multiple blocklists that try to remove as many furries as possible (which personally is a benefit, although you may think differently). We also have more political ones, mostly anti-“right wing” as bsky trends more “left”. The more extreme elements of Twitter were the first to evacuate, so it’s no surprise that they’re already attempting to rebuild their algorithmically defined echo chambers. Dissenting opinions cause 3d6 psychic damage, after all.

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

#115

Post by squigz »

idlewords wrote: post #95

Bluesky would really benefit from a notional ($1/year) signup fee. That small bit of friction makes a vast difference in knocking down all kinds of spam, at the price of being considered a bit uncool (for having a revenue stream).

And at the price of anonymity, and making the platform inaccessible to those who can't afford the signup fee (which will certainly stay 1 USD per year forever, right?) (inb4 someone tells me how everyone can afford $1)

Not to mention that this won't solve the spam that actually matters. What's dropping a few thousand dollars to a dedicated attacker?

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

CuriousCosmic wrote: post #75
Waterluvian wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a feeling that this is going to create a weird thing of some magnitude where accounts end up on popular blacklists for poor reasons and have no recourse. I’m concerned that in time it might develop into zealous communities of samethink where you have to mind any slightly dissenting opinion or you’ll get blacklisted. I think what I’m thinking about is essentially that judges cannot be replaced by community opin…

> I have a feeling that this is going to create a weird thing of some magnitude where accounts end up on popular blacklists for poor reasons and have no recourse. This actually has already kind of occurred with moderation lists and the solution has generally been to strike down list managers who abuse their authority and block them (as you can't normally add someone who has blocked you to their lists).

So, blocklists maintained to block blocklist maintainers? Resulting in blocklists to block blocklist maintainers maintaining maintainer blocklists?

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by johnnyanmac »

lolinder wrote: post #101
astrange wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't read too much into something happening. That was about the narrowest possible loss and it doesn't validate most reasons it could've happened.

He carried all 7 swing states, 5 of them with what looks like it will be a 2% margin or more (and those five would be enough for a victory even without the other two). We lost both houses of Congress. It was a closer election than, say, 2008, but this was a resounding defeat. Saying otherwise is just sticking your head in the sand. The DNC needs to do some serious introspection.

Yeah, the introspection is "get people to vote". Apathy has always been the biggest detractor from progress. The distractions of "listen to what (white) men are saying" and "fix the economy" are just distractions from the real reasons D turnout lowered.

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by johnnyanmac »

floobertoober wrote: post #111
astrange wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The DNC barely exists and doesn't do anything. (Same for the RNC.) In a presidential year it's basically all geography and coattails from the presidential campaign. This one followed the post-inflation trend from every other country, if you need a single explanation for it.

I disagree - IMO the idea of having superdelegates is terrible. Any way of picking your party's candidate that deviates from how the candidate is selected in the general is setting yourself up for failure. IMO this is part of why the party has lost steam and alignment with their base. That does fall on the DNC, I think

This isn't an opinion up for debate unless you study foreign policy: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/12/voters...

we can talk about super delegates if we want, but this is a worlwide phenomenon and goes past advertising and faux represenation. People are frustrated and want change. Any change. They are afraid and fearful people don't make rational choices.

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by johnnyanmac »

dartos wrote: post #45
luckylion wrote: post #38

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I understand the moderators working for the big social networks have a terrible job and often see the worst the internet has to offer. Who is going to do that job as a volunteer? Or is that expected to be solved by technology? Hard to imagine them achieving what Google, Facebook etc could not reliably.

The internet has been run on volunteer moderators for a long long long long long time.

indeed. and I think the one thing we can agree on is that moderation does not scale gracefully. We aren't in the 00's anymore.
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