Re:Quickmeme banned from Reddit for alleged vote manipulation
by minimaxir on Sunday June 23, 2013 @01:10PM
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Algorithmic voting bans are extremely dangerous because a false positive could be devastating for both the parent site and the linked domain. Manual intervention for such an important policy decision is crucial.
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Re:Quickmeme banned from Reddit for alleged vote manipulation
by Tobu on Sunday June 23, 2013 @07:24PM
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Autobanning is in my opinion tricky because there's a risk of triggering an arms race between autodetection and obfuscation, and giving quick feedback to the cheaters could turn out to help them.