Their comment system is absolutely broken and actually it’s probably on purpose. 90% of these comments get restored on appeal but they are already burried deep so it’s very popular moderation strategy where the system relies on correction to appear safe an intelligent but the correction ends up being irrevant in the grand scale of things.
Same thing with Twitter community notes which add context when everyone already read the tweet to give an illusion of moderation and safety.
As an engineer I’m honestly very impressed by the effectivenes of this strategy — it’s brilliant despite, you know, being evil — and it’ll take public a while to catch up.
It’s a problem with YouTube too. I would say that at least 40% of my comments end up removed.
They also like to rub my nose in it by sending me notifications from whatever thread I replied to.
I’d love to have a decent alternative.
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And removing the thumbs down count was very damaging, I think. You can see that 60 people support Hitler but you have to install an add on to know that 300 people didn’t agree with that garbage. It’s a mess.
Tiktok has always been like this.
Their comment system is absolutely broken and actually it’s probably on purpose. 90% of these comments get restored on appeal but they are already burried deep so it’s very popular moderation strategy where the system relies on correction to appear safe an intelligent but the correction ends up being irrevant in the grand scale of things.
Same thing with Twitter community notes which add context when everyone already read the tweet to give an illusion of moderation and safety.
As an engineer I’m honestly very impressed by the effectivenes of this strategy — it’s brilliant despite, you know, being evil — and it’ll take public a while to catch up.
It’s a problem with YouTube too. I would say that at least 40% of my comments end up removed.
They also like to rub my nose in it by sending me notifications from whatever thread I replied to.
I’d love to have a decent alternative.
Edit:
And removing the thumbs down count was very damaging, I think. You can see that 60 people support Hitler but you have to install an add on to know that 300 people didn’t agree with that garbage. It’s a mess.