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I just took a look at the page's own 'town square'. At the moment, it's largely full of people saying offensive things for the sake of it.
Within about 300ms I thought “moderation is going to be a problem”.
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This suggestion is scarier than the thought someone might say a slur. You're talking about using a machine to detect social undesirables then quarantining them in the matrix.
A slur is rarely the problem. Trolls can (sometimes) add flavor to a community and keep things interesting. Mostly they can be an annoyance. I’m specifically referring to people who have seemingly made it their sole purpose to create as much indiscriminate damage as possible. You can ban them, block routes for them to attempt to Sybil themselves back to having accounts, etc. but even with great moderation tools and s…
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I would be happy to edit but I don't think I yet have the ability. Cheers.
Normally I'd say not to bother, but since your GP post got some interesting replies, I think it's a good idea so I've re-opened it for editing. If you do that, let me know and I'll unflag the post and collapse the moderation bits ;)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620564 >> if words had no power, we wouldn’t fight so hard to protect them from government abuse. >People fight hard for all kinds of nonsense. https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsense
I think you've failed to understand the words in question, rather than them being meaningless
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If your website attracts such elements perhaps there's a reason?
The demo is attracting the HN crowd and it’s getting… well, let’s just say this crowd is about as good as it gets online.
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A slur is rarely the problem. Trolls can (sometimes) add flavor to a community and keep things interesting. Mostly they can be an annoyance. I’m specifically referring to people who have seemingly made it their sole purpose to create as much indiscriminate damage as possible. You can ban them, block routes for them to attempt to Sybil themselves back to having accounts, etc. but even with great moderation tools and s…
If someone is able to get around a ton of banning techniques, they will definitely notice they're shadowbanned.
There is no perfect tech solution to a human problem. But in my opinion, having access to a partial mitigation is better than no mitigation.
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This suggestion is scarier than the thought someone might say a slur. You're talking about using a machine to detect social undesirables then quarantining them in the matrix.
Edit: Welcome to Hacker News btw! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618488 looks like a great project and I put it in the second-chance pool (explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309 ). --- Can you please edit out swipes like "Do you hear yourself?". This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . If you wouldn't mind reviewing the other guidelines too, we'd a…
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Normally I'd say not to bother, but since your GP post got some interesting replies, I think it's a good idea so I've re-opened it for editing. If you do that, let me know and I'll unflag the post and collapse the moderation bits ;)
Appreciated! It's edited.
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I think you've failed to understand the words in question, rather than them being meaningless
I think you're a troll who should be banned from this site for wasting everyone's time.