so much of the early aughts small business and startups were people selling stuff and doing things out of ppls home. and not like the "startup industry" startups, actual startups
but aside from that, hosting a website or email server or newsgroup or game server with friends isnt necessarily hosting a business, not everything is a transactional relationship
yeah no, this isn't a good take imo. we already have way too much of ISPs doing bad things to internet shaping and random governmental overreach (from state govts no less!) on domains and such.
if someone wants to knowingly host a proxy they should. stuffing it along with other apps is shady and if LG wants to disallow those apps from their store than w/e but like we don't need governmental stuff encroaching on this stuff. if LG wants to do moderation on those apps than whatever.
there was a lot of fighting over this stuff back in the early 2010s because the alternative was effectively a balkanized corponet.
smart TVs, by virtue of being devices you can write apps for, have morphed into more general purpose computing devices and keeping it as open as it can be is important. the backsliding from stuff like Android has been horrible for the ecosystem and that shouldn't be normalized, let alone as a legal requirement geez
to be fair, i once accidentally ended up on shreddit or new reddit or whatever they call it nowadays and i think there's something for managing your posts on reddit and seeing analytics about that or whatever
> uncovering modern bot operations
this significantly overestimates how sophisticated the spam waves are compared to like ability. the 80% of spam filtering basically never was really done as far as i can tell.
> a thankless threadmill, and user engagement metrics from fake users are still user engagement metrics.
gallowboob in particular was an interesting case because he was very much a real person. and oh hell did a subreddit I mod know that way all too well
i think the guy had a like a keyword alert on his username because like one of my co-mods on a subreddit would talk about the guy and then we'd get reports for "It's targeted harassment against me" (which are reports that are sent to the admins) like a few hours later. much to the dismay of him, we had a chat with the admins later and it was like "as long as you're not saying to do vote manipulate or harass the guy it's fine."
i think a lot of it came from the fact that so like if you're modding a subreddit, a lot of people spend their time in the modqueue view rather than the comments so you see the targeted harassment reports on "xyz is a meanie head" and just click "remove" because it already is on the edge at best for most subreddits. this is how context gets lost. so people would see "unfavorable treatment" (not that it didn't happen, gallowboob's company's domain was soft-banned on reddit yet his subreddits had automod rules set to approve them) when if more people were as trigger happy on the report button a similar thing would happen
the admin problems with this are much worse because the comments tend to be looked at in isolation so saying "i'm gonna kill you", in isolation, looks without context pretty bad, but might be part of a joke chain or song meme that reddit likes to do every so often. take into account the fact that admins get whiny sometimes if your AEO removals are too high. then take into account the AEO guy's Tarot card reading and whether Mercury is in retrograde and you get a lot of mods who are a bit trigger happy, esp when people've gotten banned for approving stuff the AEO removed for dumb reasons
this somewhat led to a bit of an inflated ego with regards to reddit but eventually from what i see he left... at least under that username anyway.
iirc it only got noticed at the time because of an argument between him and Ecka6 which led to the somewhat famous "here's the thing you said a jackdaw is a crow" copypasta
banned_by true is more accurate to say "admin or automatic". in "admin mode," you can see these although not sure the UX for these nowadays now that it is spewing a gazillion lines of text into them).
Anti-Evil Operations removals (nee Trust & Safety) are generally human(-assisted) actions (although these actions can be applied en masse). there's some more information nowadays in the API which was really nice. it also helped because people stopped blaming "the mods" for removals when the spam filter slopped all over the place. this was also annoying because previously you had to previously guess from the API how it was removed even if you were a mod.
the 3 ways to remove a post/comment (i.e. in reply to: train_spam):
- remove not spam: removes it but doesn't train the spam filter, obvious
- spam: removes it and trains the spam filter, obvious
- confirm spam: only happens when you remove after removing for any reason, *does not* train the spam filter
- reinforce spam: trains the spam filter even if the spam filter already caught it. *does* train the spam filter. you can do this by doing `action: spam` in automod. not sure if there have been any more in the last few years
also you can tell the legacy of "removals", back in the day stories were "banned" instead of "removed" by moderators and administrators.
also also also... you can see a lot of the stuff from this article in the `approved_by` side of it as well. if you hover over a checkmark of someone who has been unshadowbanned, you'll see it says "approved by Reddit (shadowban removed)"
if an admin manually unspams someones stuff (say someone who got accidentally shadowbanned and got hit with an overzealous spam filter multiple times >.>), it'll say "approved by <username> (all)". there are some consequences to this. it approves stuff that has been "filtered" (as AutoMod filtering is a weird hack where it removes something but keeps in the modqueue).
> spammit
i believe this is the thing that is "pretty similar to a naive Bayesian classifier"[1][2] that reddit used. /u/Deimorz iirc was a reddit dev at the time and it was somewhat public info. i say somewhat because you kinda had to be both interested in the this and probably be around the metasphere
iirc from some other comments i pieced together there are also per-subreddit spam filters. in the olden days sometimes they'd get way out of whack and you could ask an admin to reset it for you... or something idk
> em
guessing em in this case btw refers to /u/hueypriest, who was reddit's GM at the time
> would’ve been catastrophic for Reddit’s spam issues
the thing that surprised me at the time was just how bad reddit's spam filtering is. i did a small little thing at the time where i'd just look at stuff following some basic spam filtering rules (like stuff you'd probably get out of an artisinal spamassassin ruleset) and even that deluge was amazing to see.
like the ML stuff is cool and all but seriously 90% of this could probably still be solved with some basic rules. the profile hiding stuff didn't help either but that was way after my time.
oh no, the terms of service how dare people break those. you don't get to claim fair use while CFAAing everyone's actual IP then whine about the tos, and then when called out on spying on users point to it as if it being in the tos somehow justifies it
a lot of other malware has a tos too but we still call it for what it is
basically the point is that it's not protected because it doesn't fall under any classification of IP (it's not copyright or patent since it's mathematical outputs of a mechanical system, it's not trademark because obvious, and it's not a trade secret because it's not a secret)
but aside from that, hosting a website or email server or newsgroup or game server with friends isnt necessarily hosting a business, not everything is a transactional relationship