Comment by runjake
1 day ago
From experience, this is generally easy to figure out. The ratio between dumb joke threats vs actual threats is something like >99.9%.
1 day ago
From experience, this is generally easy to figure out. The ratio between dumb joke threats vs actual threats is something like >99.9%.
> The ratio between dumb joke threats vs actual threats is something like >99.9%.
This makes the situation ripe for false positives. If 99.9% of threats are jokes and you correctly identify joke threats as jokes 99% of the time, that remaining 0.9% is several times larger than the real threats.
And while the difference may seem obvious to you and I, being able to perceive the difference probably becomes harder across cultural divides (such as between teachers and a younger generation of students.) Furthermore, any bitter teacher with an axe to grind can leverage "zero tolerance" rules and strategic ignorance to deliberately construe a joke as a real threat to get rid of a kid they don't like (I've seen this sort of thing happen.) The more surveillance there is, the more opportunities there are to catch somebody making a edgy joke in what they thought was a private conversation.