JRP3
Hyperactive Member
And there you go:
Hope you didn't throw your back out spinning that one.
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Elon & Twitter
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smogne41
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Of course it had an effect. For the first time in years we were getting good software updates that added meaningful quality of life improvements and not useless fluff or removed features. We got a round wheel option for the S/X. etc. Sad he might be coming back.
Norbert
TSLA will win
By the way, what does it mean for a thread to have the red label "Wiki" at the beginning of its title?
Usually it means that the thread contains a wiki post that can be edited by anyone. In this case, it’s 100% my fault. As a moderator, I have the action button shown below. It has no confirmation, and my fat thumb pressed it on a post by accident. When I removed the wiki post, the label stayed on the title. I’ll ask an admin if they can fix it. Until then, silently curse me.
Edit: I was able to fix it myself. It’s gone! Gone, I tell you!
italian bread
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“Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen it” — The original armchair quarterback a long, long time ago.
Cat and dog torture videos litter Twitter, adding to concerns about moderation
Cat and dog torture videos litter Twitter, adding to concerns about moderation
italian bread
Member
“Nothing to see here”
“Move along, move along.”
— The original people you can trust to have no nefarious agendas.
And “If you don’t see it, is it really there?”
— The original Jedi mind trick.
Twitter removes autocomplete after gore videos of animal torture, shootings
“Move along, move along.”
— The original people you can trust to have no nefarious agendas.
And “If you don’t see it, is it really there?”
— The original Jedi mind trick.
Twitter removes autocomplete after gore videos of animal torture, shootings
italian bread
Member
* I’m missing the edit button (at least on the mobile website). I can’t delete or edit the incomplete post I accidentally made above. Moderators, please remove it, thanks.
“Did we really have to jettison three-quarters if the ship?”
— Arcee from the original Transformers cartoon movie, it’s probably not verbatim.
Allen, Texas mall shooting: How graphic videos spread on Twitter
Blue ticks are the worse, be careful when your pets are outside.
“Did we really have to jettison three-quarters if the ship?”
— Arcee from the original Transformers cartoon movie, it’s probably not verbatim.
Allen, Texas mall shooting: How graphic videos spread on Twitter
Blue ticks are the worse, be careful when your pets are outside.
Krugerrand
Meow
Not anymore than you did by claiming he admitted something he didn’t.
mspohr
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Climate crisis deniers target scientists for vicious abuse on Musk’s Twitter
Abusive, often violent tweets denying the climate emergency have become a barrage since Elon Musk acquired the platform, say UK experts
www.theguardian.com
Some of the UK’s top scientists are struggling to deal with what they describe as a huge rise in abuse from climate crisis deniers on Twitter since the social media platform was taken over by Elon Musk last year. Since then, key figures who ensured “trusted” content was prioritised have been sacked, according to one scientist, and Twitter’s sustainability arm has vanished. At the same time several users with millions of followers who propagate false statements about the climate emergency, including Donald Trump and rightwing culture warrior Jordan Peterson, have had their accounts reinstated. Climate scientists say the change has been stark, and they are fighting to make themselves heard over a “barrage” of often hostile comments.
Maslin says he used to have regular meetings with Sean Boyle, Twitter’s former head of sustainability, who was laid off in Musk’s mass cull of staff shortly after he took over in Aprll 2022. Maslin said Boyle discussed the platform’s work to develop ways of ensuring that trusted information was pushed to the top. “They were using climate change as a good test bed, because it was fairly clear who the good and bad actors were,” Maslin said. “But he was sacked and Twitter became the wild west.”
I could see moderation requiring a lot of real humans (probably all laid off now) maybe what made this less prevalent pre-Elon and is showing up now.
AI/automation can do some obvious filtering/flagging, but I doubt that if someone really wanted to game the system, a computer can do the job well enough since trouble makers have all the time in the world to figure out what can bypass the auto checks and they are very motivated.
I think related to advertising and Twitter, until they can clean up this mess, it's hard to see advertisers wanting to pay to be back on the platform if you're a cat food company and your ads are hi-lighted next to cat torture videos.
I doubt the 10% left working there wants to go further hardcore when they already spend 80-100 hours of their day at work. I still don't see the motivation, but maybe I'm too old/blind/biased/not greedy enough to want to subject myself to that type of work environment.
AI/automation can do some obvious filtering/flagging, but I doubt that if someone really wanted to game the system, a computer can do the job well enough since trouble makers have all the time in the world to figure out what can bypass the auto checks and they are very motivated.
I think related to advertising and Twitter, until they can clean up this mess, it's hard to see advertisers wanting to pay to be back on the platform if you're a cat food company and your ads are hi-lighted next to cat torture videos.
I doubt the 10% left working there wants to go further hardcore when they already spend 80-100 hours of their day at work. I still don't see the motivation, but maybe I'm too old/blind/biased/not greedy enough to want to subject myself to that type of work environment.
Norbert
TSLA will win
Climate crisis deniers target scientists for vicious abuse on Musk’s Twitter
Abusive, often violent tweets denying the climate emergency have become a barrage since Elon Musk acquired the platform, say UK experts
Some of the UK’s top scientists are struggling to deal with what they describe as a huge rise in abuse from climate crisis deniers on Twitter since the social media platform was taken over by Elon Musk last year. Since then, key figures who ensured “trusted” content was prioritised have been sacked, according to one scientist, and Twitter’s sustainability arm has vanished. At the same time several users with millions of followers who propagate false statements about the climate emergency, including Donald Trump and rightwing culture warrior Jordan Peterson, have had their accounts reinstated. Climate scientists say the change has been stark, and they are fighting to make themselves heard over a “barrage” of often hostile comments.
Maslin says he used to have regular meetings with Sean Boyle, Twitter’s former head of sustainability, who was laid off in Musk’s mass cull of staff shortly after he took over in Aprll 2022. Maslin said Boyle discussed the platform’s work to develop ways of ensuring that trusted information was pushed to the top. “They were using climate change as a good test bed, because it was fairly clear who the good and bad actors were,” Maslin said. “But he was sacked and Twitter became the wild west.”
Probably applies to US climate scientists as well. At least Gavin Schmidt, one of NASA's top climate scientists, posted on April 29th:
"The comments on this reasonable, helpful and explanatory post by Zeke are something to behold. Almost 100% nonsense, using the stupidest of stupidest contrarian tropes. Others have commented on this, but climate interactions on Twitter have really degenerated in recent months."
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"Whether it's because reasonable people have left, or tweets are only being pushed to people who are triggered by climate science or something else, the unremitting celebration of know-nothingness is just... sad. We do well to realize this is not the real world."
I have also read similar from scientists in other fields.
italian bread
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EVNow
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I no longer care what happens to Twitter - it's obviously no longer a place for any serious discussion.
I'm more worried about Elon selling stock to prop up Twitter.
Hopefully Twitter won't turn out to be Elon's Waterloo.
EVNow
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To the mod who moved my posts with a threat of ban : What topics are allowed in this thread ?
ps : I mean if you can't talk here about how Twitter agreed to ban posts criticizing one presidential candidate - what are we allowed to post here ? How exactly is that "politics" ?
ps : I mean if you can't talk here about how Twitter agreed to ban posts criticizing one presidential candidate - what are we allowed to post here ? How exactly is that "politics" ?
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This reaction and the result is not based on personal experience, but due to what media has been incessantly shouting from their roof tops.
Not a single article has mentioned anything about how child porn was virtually eliminated in a matter of few weeks since Elon took over, and how now the machine generation bots are almost gone. Problems that were rampant earlier, but the media looked the other way.
Yup.
I’ve been using Twitter for years for reading and it hasnt gotten any worse. I’d say it’s a bit better and definitely like the new features they are adding.
I think people complaining, are interacting with questionable people more since Elon took over and therefore their feed amplifies that. I just make tweets as not interesting to me and then it keeps the feed for what I want to see.
EVNow
Well-Known Member
Dude, what do you know about my personal experience ?
Those who always followed cat-turd and the like will not see much of a difference, I'm sure.
JRP3
Hyperactive Member
Says who? Elon? I never saw any before anyway. And how did they manage to "eliminate" that but not animal abuse?
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