Comment by lucb1e
7 months ago
How does one graduate from probation, while being hellbanned / having your contribution quarantined? Since I'm certainly not wasting my time doing a second contribution so long as the first one isn't getting approved, it sounds like this would have to be a manual process or you'd lose out on new contributors that are seeing their work go to /dev/null and never returning
Do you believe what we are doing now is working? Because with the exception of places like this the internet sure looks pretty Dead to me.
You always have to show people their own edits. It's a common form of proofreading. But what's added and how often does matter. Misinformation is one thing. External links are potentially something much worse. I used to think SO had it figured out as far as mutual policing, but that's not working so well now either.
I'm not sure what e.g. showing one one's own change answers. Do you manually review submissions or how does get one out of this initial "put everyone in quarantine" state?
I'm also not sure what "we" are doing now that makes the web look dead to you. I receive no more email spam than ten years ago, less if anything, and I haven't seen any spam on the places that I frequent like HN, stackexchange, wikipedia, mastodon, signal, github, etc.
> and I haven't seen any spam on the places that I frequent like HN, stackexchange, wikipedia, mastodon, signal, github, etc.
Could that just be because the modern LLM generated spam doesn't look like old-school spam? Just recently we learnt that a university conducted a study on Reddit changemyview subreddit using LLM generated comments without getting caught.
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