Re:Progress on addressing online abuse
by ohyoutravel on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @10:23AM
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A crowdsourced "blocked list" similar to ublock origin for twitter?
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Re:Progress on addressing online abuse
by TorKlingberg on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @10:41AM
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This already exists. Of course, you get plenty of disagreement about who should be on the list.
these exist, but because 'annoying account' is a subjective decision, while 'advertisement url' is an objective decision, it is difficult to create a list with a clear brightline between harassment and disagreement
There is at least one hard-left feminist who ended up on GGAutoblock because Randi Harper just disliked her.
This sounds like the kind of thing that will get abused if widely adopted.
Re:Progress on addressing online abuse
by digler999 on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @10:32AM
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then you could harass people by falsely getting them on a block list.
Re:Progress on addressing online abuse
by strictnein on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @10:42AM
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I'm already on some block lists. I'll run into some journalists who have me blocked. Never interacted with them. I hardly interact with anyone, but some block lists just take the entire list of followers from people and add them.