#NeedsMoreLikes

[DukeTrout]

@robertmckenna

I checked their policies and they claim it is not tolerated on their site. And yet they have no way to deal with it.

Same with LinkedIn.

[LutherBlisset]

You are not wrong.

I started reporting people for spam instead of navigating the depths of twitter’s reporting system, which is especially ridiculous in Germany thanks to the Netzwerk-Durchsetzungsgesetz.
h/t to @codinghorror who made me aware that spam flags usually carry more weight, since every platform really hates spammers.

[robertmckenna]

Thanks for the suggestion, I am worried about implementing it though as every single person/account I have reported for hate/abuse/racism etc. has had my complaint upheld and the ban hammer weilded. I have no idea how their system works but if there is any algorithmic weight based on trust I wouldn’t want to undo that. I don’t currently know anyone working down the road in Twitter to ask.

[codinghorror]

@LutherBlisset

spam flags usually carry more weight

It’s about the only flag type people universally agree on. Off topic? debatable! Inappropriate? sez who! Something else? oh, don’t get me started.

But Spam? Yeah, everyone hates spam. It’s a universal truth.

[LutherBlisset]

Also, the category is broad. Reply to something with an off topic reply could be counted as spamming, including my replies in the #NeedsMoreLikes topic.

If I can’t be sure if an insult or insinuation on twitter would legally be falling under the seven or so possible paragraphs of different applicable laws, highlighting it as spam is an easy choice.

Twitter’s reporting is basically bullshit in troughs. As @robertmckenna said: burn it, with fire.
I say nuke it from orbit.
And why not both?
Nothing of value will be lost.

[robertmckenna]

@codinghorror

But Spam? Yeah, everyone hates spam. It’s a universal truth

Also spam is less a matter of opinion. What I consider racism is robust free speech to someone else. Automated spam filters work much better than automated dishonest arsehole filters.

I think

[DukeTrout]

There are some platforms that have great “dishonest arsehole” filters. The problem is that they filter out everyone but dishonest arseholes.

[robertmckenna]

#needsmorelikes

[Sally_Mahoney]

How the language of special education denigrates kids with disabilities

The fundamental problem here? In the U.S., there’s no universal health coverage. Every family has to navigate the rules of their health insurance policy – if they’re lucky enough to have one – or else advocate (and pay) directly for medical assistance at all levels. Thus, these games. It’s the medical community versus the insurance community, with families playing the part of the tug-of-war rope.

[Ratel]

Daily Mail sues Google over Piers Morgan's weak search results

Gee, that difficulty in finding browser-search answers featuring the Daily Mail wouldn’t have anything to do with the Stop Funding Hate campaign, would it? Because any time I see someone on Social Media link to the hateful publication, I ask them not to do so. It seems to work. Naturally the Daily Fail will have no understanding of this, any more than it comprehends empathy and human decency. May it perish in flames, and Piers Morgan along with it.

[anon61221983]

4chan founder Chris “moot” Poole no longer works at Google

Bullshit. He realized he created a monster. At that point you shut it down or you get it the resources it needs and make sure they work, because otherwise you are releasing that monster to the world. He chose option 3, get a payout and avoid responsibility. There should be consequences for that choice, including no corporation with any moral standard ever hiring him. It’s not like he was forced to sell or something, he made the choice. Full stop. But that’s not what happened - it was toxic. …

[Ratel]

Watch these two guys try to move a giant pottery urn onto a tiny truck

They neither earned their keep nor kept their urn.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Newsmax's John Bachman says Biden wants to remove all CO2 from the air: "what're the trees gonna turn into oxygen?"

There should be a legal way to remove organizations that claim to deliver the news but purposely deliver misinformation. This is a gross misuse of a platform. Fortunately it’s too stupid to be taken too seriously, but it was an actual attempt to characterize the position of reducing CO2 to competely removing it from the planet.

[Immutable_Mike]

I laughed way too much at this.

Where is Jesus's foreskin?

The Holy Foreskin and the Sack of Rome

[Sally_Mahoney]

Private school in Miami will not allow their teachers to be vaccinated

Its interesting to see a whole school enter to compete for a Darwin Award. But I betcha they don’t teach no damn Darwin, do they?

[Sally_Mahoney]

Verizon dumps AOL and Yahoo in fire sale

I’m glad there’s a future for the internet that includes AOL. I’m nearly out of coasters.

[Immutable_Mike]

"This is definitely the most bizarre question I have ever seen on a job application"

[cut to training montage set to “You’re the Best Around” as I’m teaching the elephant to fight crime]

[Nightflyer]

Josh Duggar's wife installed anti-porn software on his computer, but Duggar installed anti-anti-porn software

I value that you do this. It needs to be said, louder and more often. People need to understand this. People need to hear this. But I mean this in the nicest and most loving way possible: You and the borderer and other people like you and me saying this are not enough. We need leaders in the church willing to call them out. We need the United Methodist Council, the Pope, the Archbishop of the Lutherans, trusted religious officials and leaders from all the other branches to call them out as …

[anon61221983]

UK Political Thread, part the second

And if those are the options presented then Labour is dead. Maybe I am not being clear enough. WE NEED SOMETHING DIFFERENT! We don’t need another Corbyn, trying to make 1970s politics work in in the 2020s. We don’t need another Blair, trying to make 1990s politics work in the 2020s, We don’t need Blue Labour, trying to make 1930s politics work in the 2020s. WE NEED SOMETHING DIFFERENT! We need to look at how the world has changed since then. Labour losing places like Hartlepool and the rest…

[Sally_Mahoney]

US to restore transgender health protections

another biden administration scandal: attempting to classify all people as human beings. when will it end?