To those that have … well, 'twas ever thus.
I’ll say it yet again, boring as it is. Education.
Not much hope, eh?
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I like it that, going off of memory, you created specific examples not in the original text. Says something about our memory and ‘eyewitness testimony’
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I’ll say it yet again, boring as it is. Education.
When I was 12, my seventh-greade teacher gave us a course on propaganda. How it works, what rhetoric it uses, where to find examples. We all had to write one ad, & a piece of propaganda for something we didn’t believe in.
It was part of a social studies class…a topic that is disappearing from modern schools.
You kids want to get off my lawn now…the grass is greener over there.
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Facebook isn’t the worst place I’ve been. And I don’t live there, just visit from time to time.
I think people take these online communities way too seriously. If this is all for entertainment purposes only. Facebook is just some stupid place to pass the time, like a Chuck-E-Cheese. (P.S. don’t eat the pizza. it’s baaaaad and sometimes not sanitary)
As a phd in history who just got done talking about what history is and Bacon’s rebellion to a class of undergrads, I obviously concur! But of course that’s been under attack for a while now… That’s been one of the more dangerous things that has come out of the right wing propaganda machine, that education is too biased against the “conservative” point of view. This is part of the reason why so many conservative activist have done things like run for school boards, in order to undercut that. Betsy DeVos seems like an outcome to all of that (including the attack on “left wing radical” professors at colleges and universities).
But yeah… I also looked at the jobs boards today (keeping in mind that it’s early in the fall for job postings in academia)…
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You might think that, but many clearly consider it on a par with air, water and food. Personally, I say let them asphyxiate, dehydrate and starve.
PS Whereas BB is of course a very sensible stupid place to pass the time. 
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It’s called education and a serious commitment thereto.
All this does is keep track of how many times someone has inappropriately flagged content. You’re all reading way too much into it.
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Seriously, if you haven’t already deleted your account, what will it take?
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To be fair, Facebook keeps an accurate list of my relatives who are not allowed in my home and the reasons for same.
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Ever read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? There’s a subplot involving a right wing attempt to purge leftist academics…
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Seems like I have, but it’s been like… over 20 years, at least. I barely remember much about it. Maybe I’ll give it a re-read soon!
But I’m not surprised. The postmodern turn which opened up all sorts of lines of inquiry on race, gender, and colonialism has really upset quite a few applecarts of traditional scholars.
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If users aren’t ready to jump ship into the Fediverse and Mastodon etc., then I do think we need to think more thoroughly about content moderation on these social platforms. Unfortunately, the current answer from elites seems to be U.S. government pressure, which has seen progressive, lefty profiles and pages as well as far-right pages be pulled en masse in politically-motivated Facebook or Twitter purges of accounts. Any “trustworthiness score” is also a problem, for the reasons Cory states (and others).
However, I do think we’ve “solved” a large portion of the problem a long time ago, when late-90’s sites blew up into huge social centers. Slashdot’s community “karma” and temporary moderation by users is flawed, sure, but it’s nowhere near as bad as this Facebook proposal. Where the Slashdot model fails, perhaps there are other solutions that keep community moderation as the central mechanism for quality control.
Circa 1999: https://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml
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