Re:XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works
by koyote on Sunday October 16, 2022 @08:24PM
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I always thought that this is how it already worked.
That being said, the above can also be abused by creating a bunch of high rep accounts or opening up a black market of high rep accounts for sale. It's definitely a higher bar though.
Re:XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works
by DannyBee on Sunday October 16, 2022 @08:58PM
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In a system like this they will play both sides. They do, in fact. Set up accounts that produce content that violates TOS and accounts that report it. The reporting accounts will have their rep increased for correctly reporting tos violations.
Then they use the high rep accounts to brigade and fake report. Or sell them.
They are patient, so even if you make reputation go up slowly, they will just build a pipeline of account harvesting.
When you report content for the first time your reputation score is 0.5, if the content is of a celebrity or public figure, your reputation will invisibly drop, enough of these and your score will be so low as to not be a useful flag when evaluating whether content is objectionable.
On the other side, if the content is reviewed as violating ToS, your rep will increase.
With a system like this the fake reports and brigading will quickly lose its power, eventually all users who abuse reports will be ranked so low as to not matter.
A threshold of rep score can be set before the content is auto removed. Maybe something like 25pts in order for it to be removed, and that's after adding together all the rep of the reporting users.