Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
by solveit on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @08:34PM
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Everyone was fine with chronological order.
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Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
by motivic on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @08:47PM
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In that case one can just spam the same (or similar) post every second and your feed will likely be filled with that post.
I know I'm setting up a bit of a straw man here but my point is even chronological order can be exploited.
Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
by jsjohnst on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @10:41PM
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> I know I'm setting up a bit of a straw man here
Especially as this thread has already mostly said spam filtering (which your example would easily trigger) isn’t in opposition towards a goal of neutral status.
Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
by leereeves on Thursday October 17, 2019 @02:06AM
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And if you did that, people would unfriend/unfollow you. Problem solved.
Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
by Fnoord on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:14AM
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> my point is even chronological order can be exploited
The question is, how easy can it be?
The straw man, is indeed, that you can filter such, client- or server-side. If you see the same shit the whole time, you ignore it all. Easy; even IRC clients with scripting had such features in the 90s. Here is a list of techniques used in e-mail filtering [1]