Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by ssl232 on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:02AM
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It's not trying to solve the problem of assessing whether rules were broken, it's attempting to add friction to bad behaviour. If you get banned and lose your deposit, it's going to cost you another $N to try again. Right now there's practically zero cost to signing up to a website again with a new account to continue the bad behaviour. At least this way, only the richest and most determined trolls will continue to have an impact on services.
Saylor discussed this mainly in the solution of DDOS mitigation. Perhaps he didn't intend for it to extend as far as content moderation and I'm taking his idea too far, but I think he probably did.
No, the problem is that determining bad behaviour (or at least, doing so in a way that is fair, just, and broadly accepted) is very difficult. There's no objective naughtiness meter that detects when someone's behaving in bad faith. There's no set of words that always, regardless of context indicate undue rudeness. There's no perfect demarcation between just asking questions, and harassment.
So basically any system is going to have to make a series of judgement calls, and those judgement calls are going to be specific to the context of the person (or people) making the judgement. And most importantly: other people will disagree with that judgement call! Not least the poor victim of your unfair banhammer (or the poor victim of the abusive spammer you choose to do nothing about).
Money's not going to fix that problem - if anything, it'll make it worse when people have more on the line.