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2023-01-12 20:15 UTC

@ttpphd@mastodon.social The better studies did count up those effects. The other thing that has to be counted, though, is the abuse that happens with screenshots & thus starts off & gets it head of steam up under the radar of the victim before they can report it. Not automating it with notifications might increase that - & make moderation more difficult. Abuse happens more often in replies, boosts and with hashtags to draw in more people. In the end, safety here is the burden of moderators and the rest of us.

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@thespoonless@epicure.social 2023-01-12 23:55

@hildabast@mastodon.online @ttpphd@mastodon.social Screenshots also had to be used, as receipts proving what the bad actors were doing (particularly the foreign-language #COVID #disinformation) because as soon as any given thread fell off the doomscroll, the bad actors would then delete the evidence of what they had said. So much missing content is definitely going to skew your results. Also: "The primary vectors of incivility and abuse on Twitter appear to be replies and hashtags, and it comes from a small minority of users." This is provably untrue; the second ivermectin disinformation campaign hit six tweets per second, on September 11, 2021 (yes - the 20th anniversary of 9/11): https://nitter.unixfox.eu/TheSpoonless/status/1436749753627381760#m As for quote boosts here, I'm happy to have it be opt-in only, and I hope it will be implemented across the fediverse that accounts can opt out of being quoted. My last word on the subject comes from QTs' inventor: "“Quote retweet allows for the dunk. It’s the dunk mechanism." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet

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@Lapineige@mamot.fr 2023-01-14 23:24

@hildabast@mastodon.online could you please elaborate on how this has been taken into account ? I did not have time to dig into studies details yet, but from what I read it's unclear to me how that could manage it ("for real"). Thanks in advance 🙂 @ttpphd@mastodon.social

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