artlu 🎩
@artlu
it's interesting to observe how much juice @geoffgolberg can squeeze out of a following graph. While the Warpcast ML model has to worry about identifying spammers faster, on less actual spam and more related signals (are you a human being in Indonesia? susssssss). At the same time, Warpcast needs to make it easier for newcomers to retain. Clearly, a setup with many hidden tripwires is horrible. And to have a HUGE penalty for spamming is even more problematic than caning someone for chewing gum. I personally think a don't-talk-to-famous-people-if-you-don't-know-them rule is dehumanizing to both sides. But many seem to think it's common sense. And then they play with the follower counts, not intentionally but with reactionary decisions, and it's kinda worse than any other social media experience. I mean, the only thing Discord is missing for decentralized social is a crypto-rails identity. It's basically censorship-resistant (maybe moreso than this particular US company) and crypto-native by default
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Leeward Bound
@leewardbound
trying to find a perfect heuristic for automating all this is stupid anyway, 1m signups in 2y means they'd only need to review like 1300 accounts per day to manually curate the whole network and create the highest quality social account ratings ever seen love when a billion dollar valuation makes a company lose their damn mind and overengineer a problem that could be solved by adding "moderator" to the janitors job description
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Leeward Bound
@leewardbound
a mod team of 10 earning $30k/yr would cost less than one senior merkle engineer
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artlu 🎩
@artlu
idk I think we should be trying (harder) to achieve new things, and I don't fault an attempt at engineering something. If anything, I think Merkle + the FC community should be trying 5-10 different approaches, rather than loading it all onto a monolithic ML model. Even independent mini-models, rather than one that allows the signals to leverage on each other. It's not like janitor moderators don't bring their own problems. It's the Mythical Man-Month, plus Stasi / Mafia goals in a decentralized space, plus all the human biases that FB and X have grappled with for decades
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