top | item 33916245

(no title)

IfOnlyYouKnew | 3 years ago

A “secret blacklist” that’s been known forever, or at least for two years: https://twitter.com/dancow/status/1601017194456186881?s=20&t...

discuss

order

rhaksw|3 years ago

... and I've worked on Reveddit for four years. Less than 1% of Redditors know that all removed comments are secretly removed.

It's hard to make people care about this stuff. Most of us only start to see the harm of something when it's shown in context. Just showing that something can be theoretically harmful isn't enough.

NaturalPhallacy|3 years ago

TYVYS shadowbanning and silently removing comment is such cowardly behavior. Against spam bots, fine. But against what are obviously real people? It's wrong.

veec_cas_tant|3 years ago

Here is an announcement from 2018[0]:

>“It’s shaping up to be one of the highest-impact things that we’ve done,” the chief executive, Jack Dorsey ,said of the update, which will change how tweets appear in search results or conversations. “The spirit of the thing is that we want to take the burden off the person receiving abuse or mob-like behavior.”

> The new system will use behavioral signals to assess whether a Twitter account is adding to – or detracting from – the tenor of conversations...

> The updated algorithm will result in certain tweets being pushed further down in a list of search results or replies, but will not delete them from the platform.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/15/twitter-r...

rhaksw|3 years ago

IMO that's fine, but if you want me to trust such a system, the author should see on their tweet some indication that it's been demoted.

jdminhbg|3 years ago

> The updated algorithm will result

These screenshots are about actions taken by Twitter employees, not an updated algorithm.