Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning
by jedberg on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:18PM
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No of course it didn't. I'm just saying I think Facebook implemented it after we told them about it on reddit. It wasn't something they had thought of before that. We did it on reddit without knowledge of the other cases too. It's a pretty obvious solution honestly.
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Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning
by nkozyra on Thursday August 08, 2019 @07:07PM
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That seems unlikely, shadow banning has been around for a long long time.
Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning
by rhizome on Thursday August 08, 2019 @08:11PM
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I think he's saying that as far as Facebook goes, they for sure knew in 2012, so they can't plead ignorance or convergent evolution.
Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning
by nkozyra on Friday August 09, 2019 @09:06AM
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Well he said he knew that they took the idea from Reddit, that's the part that seems unlikely.
Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning
by jsgo on Friday August 09, 2019 @09:58AM
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> and they hadn't considered it before that. I'm pretty sure reddit is where they got the idea...
pretty sure implies he has a hunch that they did, not 100% certainty. They may've said they hadn't considered such a thing before in a "forum" that the OP was able to overhear this either directly or indirectly and it wouldn't be a stretch to consider that in Facebook's history of borrowing from others, they then borrowed it from reddit.
It doesn't discount that it existed prior to reddit, just that they may have been the source for Facebook.
Microsoft was selling Office 365 subscriptions for a while and I never bought one. Eventually, I bought one from Amazon. So it is both true that I got it from Amazon, but that Microsoft had them prior.