Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus...
by e12e on Saturday June 04, 2016 @05:04AM
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How do you think the voting ring detection works?
Some users post contact info in their profile, so there is the possibility for messaging (email). Yes, there are policies, and structure and many good things - I'm not sure that means that HN isn't a social network of sorts?
I suppose it might boil down to a technicality, but I always read "social network" as a graph that describes how a group is connected - not as some strict technological definition. So a bunch of people that informally meet at a cafe to discuss politics, art and other topics can be described as a social network.
Some users post contact info in their profile, so there is the possibility for messaging (email). Yes, there are policies, and structure and many good things - I'm not sure that means that HN isn't a social network of sorts?
I suppose it might boil down to a technicality, but I always read "social network" as a graph that describes how a group is connected - not as some strict technological definition. So a bunch of people that informally meet at a cafe to discuss politics, art and other topics can be described as a social network.