A BBC investigation found 100 "sexualised images of children" on Facebook. Auntie Beeb reported the images to Facebook, who found over 80% of them to be "not in breach of their guidelines" - despite one of them including a still from a child abuse video with a label requesting viewers "share child pornography."
The twist is that when the BBC followed up on this failure, Facebook reported the BBC to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre for "distributing images of child exploitation".
How can Facebook expect users to help them police their content when reporting abuse gets the users accused of the abuses they are reporting?
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday March 08 2017, @09:00PM (7 children)
How many times does it need to show up before we all agree that it's as toxic as actual spam?
I don't know that I can mod it spam because it's not trying to sell stuff, but I wish there was a better mod than wasting points on troll/flamebait.
I always browse at -1, to catch unfounded AC downmods, so I can't avoid seeing those.
Maybe a lower minimum would give some needed granularity, and a "broken-record troll" -2 (or more) mod would help discourage idiots while saving our mod points for deserving people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @09:08PM
You can't have a -2 option by default, abuse guaranteed. Perhaps some logic for a thread that checks if a post was made from an IP that was already modded troll. All future comments from that IP (and only for that thread) will then have the -2 option. Not perfect, but I'll err on the side of caution when it comes to mod abuse.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday March 08 2017, @09:43PM (4 children)
This is an insoluble problem. Either you see *all* the troll posts, or you miss potential unjust mods.
Idiot is in the eye of the beholder
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @09:52PM (3 children)
> This is an insoluble problem.
Have you tried mixing it with water?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday March 08 2017, @11:37PM (2 children)
> Have you tried mixing it with water?
It's not a polar issue, everyone (possible exception of the troll, but cannot exclude the case that even him) agree its a troll.
A such, only non-polar solvents might dissolve it, water won't help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Bogsnoticus on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:27AM (1 child)
Of course water won't help. Anyone who has played D&D knows you need acid to make the troll soluble.
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday March 09 2017, @05:22PM
Internet trolls are suicidal trolls.
They're the only ones dumb enough to constantly start flame wars.
(for the few who don't know their classics: burning a troll is one of the few ways to prevent regeneration after you kill him. TMYK)
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday March 08 2017, @09:51PM
If you don't care what everyone else sees, you can apply your own complex automatic meta mods here: https://soylentnews.org/my/comments [soylentnews.org]
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