Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
by dredmorbius on Saturday June 17, 2017 @12:43AM
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Abuse, like everything else, changes at scale.
There's only so much moderation a single person can handle in a day. The NY Times moderation team posted some stats a ways back, it worked out to about 800 items/person/day. Which, in an 8-hour day works out to an item every 35 seconds. Sustained. Throughout the entire day.
Techs can leverage patterns, even if it means a lot of ad hoc code.
Building training systems is even better.
Considering what Reddit's been through in the past couple of years by way of direct information attacks (even not counting any systems-level attacks), involving coloured tablets and giant orange peaches, I don't find the story that dev time has been accounted for particularly unreasonable.
There's only so much moderation a single person can handle in a day. The NY Times moderation team posted some stats a ways back, it worked out to about 800 items/person/day. Which, in an 8-hour day works out to an item every 35 seconds. Sustained. Throughout the entire day.
Techs can leverage patterns, even if it means a lot of ad hoc code.
Building training systems is even better.
Considering what Reddit's been through in the past couple of years by way of direct information attacks (even not counting any systems-level attacks), involving coloured tablets and giant orange peaches, I don't find the story that dev time has been accounted for particularly unreasonable.