Twitter spam wave

Re:Twitter spam wave by mkjones on Thursday April 03, 2014 @10:53PM (#7528895)

Yeah, we've played with that idea a bit. It doesn't help the sparseness problem (actually makes it worse), and if we took action as a direct result, it would give people the power to DoS content they disagree with.

For sites operating at a smaller scale, this could be a good way to surface content for manual review though.

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Re:Twitter spam wave by peterwwillis on Friday April 04, 2014 @10:36AM (#7531625)

Could you hire people just to review/flag stuff on a part-time basis, ala Mechanical Turk? Or is the problem just not big enough to warrant the time/money investment?

I imagine that while spam is annoying, it probably doesn't impact your bottom line in a big way.

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Re:Twitter spam wave by RA_Fisher on Friday April 04, 2014 @12:56AM (#7529393)

Are you using elastic net or other things to handle sparsity? Lots of Bayesian priors?

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