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Re:Mastodon 2.0 by daveFNbuck on Friday October 20, 2017 @01:52PM (#15517761)
Twitter is a multi-billion-dollar company that employs world-class data scientists and engineers. Do you really think they can't automate detecting death threats from throwaway accounts?
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Re:Mastodon 2.0 by lelandbatey on Friday October 20, 2017 @04:03PM (#15518743)
One example of a mitigation for this kind of behavior might be to allow users to ignore messages for accounts younger than X, where X is a length of time chosen by the recipient.

This is only a mitigation, and there are plenty of ways one could get around this kind of limit. However, some action would be appreciated.

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Re:Mastodon 2.0 by erikpukinskis on Sunday October 22, 2017 @03:36PM (#15528504)
Then you get a death threat from an account someone set a few months ago to save for the moment they wanted to send a death threat.
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Re:Mastodon 2.0 by konschubert on Saturday October 28, 2017 @07:34PM (#15577242)
I think if you built a piece of software that was able to reliably detect death threats, you could sell it not only to twitter. And for good money.
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