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Re: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers

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Post by anon1385 »

s73ver_ wrote: post #338
stale2002 wrote: post #328

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My point is that he has not recognized the dangers of his viewpoint. It is dangerous to believe "oh, I don't care what an oppressive government does in order to stop Nazis" because a whole lot of people are being called Nazis these days. The same exact thing happened during the red scare. It was not JUST the revolutionary communists who were literally trying to overthrow the government that got oppressed. A whole lot…

No, I don't believe so. They're not people that "the police just said were Nazis". They're people who self-identify as white nationalists and Nazis.

Yes. It's worth pointing out that in general it's really really easy to identify these groups because they are entirely open about their aims and ideals. That's the point of them.

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Post by visarga »

mozumder wrote: post #271
visarga wrote: post #186

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You probably don't know but there are NLP and computer vision methods to detect "blood, violence, gore and porn" automatically and stop ads on those pages (subreddits).

This doesn't just apply to obvious and simple visual problems, but also more subtle content problems. How does Honda avoid placing ads next to a pro-Roy Moore articles that might associate their brand with pedophilia?

Use word vectors to compute similarity of the page content to banned topics, and if it is > threshold, then avoid that page. When word vectors are trained on billions of words they can pick up even the slightest hint of pedophilia. They also understand slang and memes, if present in the training corpus. I think SOTA in content filtering and classification is pretty good today for both image and text.

Another way to filter pages is to follow it in time, for a longer period and if it has multiple positives, then ban it entirely.

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Post by dethswatch »

zimpenfish wrote: post #359
dethswatch wrote: post #316

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> then take it down. Love this idea! But I get to decide what's permitted and what's not. We're going to start with art that I don't understand, then off to literature that I don't care for, when all of that filth is cleaned out, it's on to expressions of thought that everyone intuitively knows are wrong, then we progress to purge politics of incompatible policy and incorrect voting patterns. Ok?

> But I get to decide what's permitted and what's not What are your credentials for this job?

My subjective, but firmly-held opinions, naturally.

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Post by dethswatch »

flunhat wrote: post #327
dethswatch wrote: post #316

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> then take it down. Love this idea! But I get to decide what's permitted and what's not. We're going to start with art that I don't understand, then off to literature that I don't care for, when all of that filth is cleaned out, it's on to expressions of thought that everyone intuitively knows are wrong, then we progress to purge politics of incompatible policy and incorrect voting patterns. Ok?

That's the slippery slope logical fallacy. You've ignored the possibility that a meaningful middle ground exists.

Ok- I'll tell you what.

In compromise toward the middle-ground, I'll only eliminate art that I don't value.

With some simple common-sense, I think we can really fix the art world.

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Post by chisleu »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #273
chisleu wrote: post #21

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This is untrue, and repeating it loud and often doesn't make it true. The moderators of The_Donald work with reddit to try to keep the subreddit in line. They do not allow anything that violates the site wide rules, but that doesn't mean low ranked comments on low ranked threads don't go unreported. I'm not saying there aren't a lot of assholes in The_Donald. There are. Some of them have valid political points to mak…

Here's the most recent thread (16 days ago) on this issue. /u/spez (the CEO of Reddit) responded [1] to a long list of unreported calls for violence on /r/the_donald, saying: > Many of these links are probably in violation of our policy, but most are unreported, which is what alerts the mods and our team, especially when there are few votes. We'll consider them reported now. > Generally the mods of the_donald have be…

Those words are used often on TD in reasonable contexts.

Schwartz is rolling over in his grave.

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Post by freeone3000 »

geofft wrote: post #29
infodroid wrote: post #5

Someone needs to put a stop to this bad meme... On social media, advertising is not an endorsement of the content. This might be the case for traditional media, but social media is different. Advertisers and platforms need to recognize the difference, to accept the lack of control over user-generated content as a feature, and to push back on unfair criticism. But perhaps their real goal is increasing their control ov…

Wait, what makes it different? There's the old adage that half of your advertising money is wasted, you just have no way of knowing which half. Why would you willingly spend it on putting your ads next to content you don't want to associate with your brand? It seems exceedingly likely that this is the half that isn't productive. (This is also what I don't get about the Twitter fake-account-number business and the You…

You're a german company. You sell cars. A community of gun enthusiasts hosts your ad. You deny it on moral means.

This has nothing to do with cars. People who buy guns can, and often do, buy cars. No relation. Was your buy going to be wasted?

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Post by Pigo »

lordCarbonFiber wrote: post #123
Pigo wrote: post #78

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Well, that does make sense that it's a daily story to you if you think that way. I just wish the people who do think this could understand how tiresome it is to see every story infused with a Trump angle. Like this Al Franken story for example, there are no posts about the topic that don't focus on the Trump accusations foremost. Why can't it be examined by itself?

What would you have it focus on: Franken's need to apologize (he did that), status of the victim's case (she accepted the apology and dropped it), need for an ethics probe (Franken proposed one)? The only thing left of interest in this story (beyond the general theme of institutionalized sexism; which let's be fair isn't going to generate conductive discussion online) is the marked difference to how this was handled…

I just used it as an example. I'm not even that interested in it honestly. But when I brought this up it was the first day of the scandal, and you're saying it'd already been talked about enough that we needed to "move on" to remembering that the President has had accusers too? Maybe things just move too fast for me.
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