Varun Srinivasan
@v
What makes an account "inauthentic"? We're considering a new labelling system for inauthentic accounts. These accounts, often incorrectly called bots, will be hidden from like counts and other metrics in Warpcast. Inauthentic accounts give real people the ick because they're clearly trying to get value for their account at the expense of everyone else on the network.
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Tristan Sharp
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I think about the implications of seemingly little design decisions. The canonical example being the downvote: Bare Twitter-like platforms that connect far-separated people, that down have a downvote, actually select for tiny loud groups. Ignoring them does little, attention can only be amplified. IRL, social networks have structural feedback mechanisms (like needing to be invited to an activity) dissuading some bad behavior.
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Tristan Sharp
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Of all possible social dynamics, I wonder if platforms are constraining themselves too greatly in their mechanisms. There's a big world of possibilities, and some are more compatible with the natural communities that humans evolved to be a part of
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