[LINK] silly idea re trolls?

[Tom Worthington]

On 11/9/21 5:24 pm, Karl Auer wrote:

> ... The idea is to delay posts identified as "bad" (by whatever criteria) ...

But what are the criteria, who sets them and is it in the interests of 
the provider of the forum to do this?

Social media companies make money selling advertising. So having "good" 
content is not a priority. What social media companies found worked was 
to show you stuff which your friends liked. But what most people like is 
sensational gossip, not carefully researched factual information.

How about a system where the posts go to a few people, and depending on 
their reaction, it goes to more people.

Or perhaps messages could come with built in "fact checking" using the 
reader's preferred source of truth, such as the Wikipedia, the People's 
Daily newspaper, or News Corp. ;-)


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Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au