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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by ccktlmazeltov on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:54PM (#23317415)
If facebook was following a deterministic algorithm, people would complain too.
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by deadwing0 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @07:49PM (#23317823)
Is that reason enough not to try? Because people will complain? You know very well that people will complain no matter what happens, yet we still must seek to work towards truth and a better way, even though "better" is in opinion word, and sometimes so is "truth."
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by ccktlmazeltov on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:20PM (#23318409)
good luck filtering human content via deterministic algorithms, and if people can reverse engineer these then they'll get gamed... it's just a stupid idea.
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by irishcoffee on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:32PM (#23318500)
Back in the day this is how it worked. They changed it. Nobody that I can recall was complaining for it to change at the time. Circa 2006 I think.

edit: grammar

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by canjobear on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:54PM (#23318611)
It was much smaller and less influential back then.
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