Daily Bard Digest 2024-08-15

At 08/15/24 14:48:24 in redditsecurity with a score of 6 points:

Hypothetically speaking —

"Frick You" is widely and generally understood to be an expression of scorn, rejection, malice, etc but without a sexual component, where in the phrase "Frick You", the Germanic legacy of English in formulating directive commands from a verb and subject without an explicit object, carries the grammatical significance that the hypothetical "You" (the subject) should imminently be "Frick[ed]", with the connotation / outright meaning of "Frick[ed]" here being "ruined, destroyed, frustrated, foiled, countered, prevented, ceased & desisted".

This insight brought to you from having to explain the same thing to non-native English speakers about /r/FrickTheAltRight, and something similar regarding /r/ShittyAskScience

At 08/15/24 18:00:02 in redditsecurity with a score of 1 point:

There's certainly some content that's now automated removal at the sitewide level.

The Transparency Reports show that the vast majority of admin-performed content removal actions are for unsolicited marketing & inauthentic engagement - spam.

Until just recently, outside of 1) obvious spam & automated unsolicited marketing accounts, and 2) specific categories of Sitewide Rule Violation which are also tangent to or involved in felonies, I saw no evidence of Reddit sitewide automating enforcement of i.e. the hate speech & violent threat rules. Recently I've seen a very, very small amount of content removals that are unambiguously Sitewide Rule Violations removed in an automated fashion. As in, I can count them on one hand.

But, like, outside of spam & the aforementioned felonious activity, all the way to 2023 I was reasonably under the belief that unless a user reports a violation, reddit inc is agnostic about and therefore had no duty to act on most potential Sitewide Rule Violations. Which is still effectively true; there's only so many ways a harasser can demand that their target unalive themself in three words, which can be handled by a very small fallthru matrix, no agency needed.

At 08/15/24 15:17:55 in redditsecurity with a score of 6 points:

Reddit uses expert systems & algorithms to "surface" — to triage & prioritise — the likely severity of user reported comments and/or in some cases submitted post and comment content. The evaluation is done by humans, because expert systems & AI do not & cannot read or understand language. Understanding of what's communicated is necessary to evaluate content for moderation functions. Expert Systems are just good at saying "This content is highly likely to be violating a sitewide rule", "This content is highly likely to violate the reported rule", etc.

While Reddit doesn't (to my knowledge) and shouldn't delineate exactly which technology they use to support Sitewide Rule Violation detection & enforcement, it's assumed that they use Perspective API for modeling / scoring content for enforcement, & Perspective's TOXICITY, IDENTITY_ATTACK, & SEXUALLY_EXPLICIT scoring attributes likely model sexual harassment to a greater or lesser extent , in combination, using datasets of classical misogynist harassment & neosexism.

When approached in that way, this update isn't a change or addition to the existing Sitewide Rules; it's clarifying that a specific species of harassment is clearly identifiable as such, is prohibited, and should be actioned.

At 08/15/24 14:37:56 in AntiTrumpAlliance with a score of 2 points:

I know a few. ^_^

At 08/15/24 14:51:33 in AntiTrumpAlliance with a score of yall:

In each one I know, Pride could be significant 🏳️‍🌈

At 08/15/24 11:46:02 in AntiTrumpAlliance with a score of yall:

Some notes, here

Semper Fi is short for Semper Fidelis

Semper Fidelis, from the Latin, means "Eternally Faithful to Virtue`, from fides, "virtue, ethics, moral character", as known in the surviving "Bona Fides" and "Uberrima Fides", and modern English "Fidelity" and "Fiduciary".

Trump shows none of these qualities.

At 08/15/24 20:43:15 in redditsecurity with a score of 1 point:

If it were automated responses to user reports, it would be much faster turnaround & would be significantly worse in results. There's also other signals that humans are processing reports - which I won't get into because delineating them might assist an attacker.

On a given week I might submit 350 reports and escalations. I might submit 500. I also keep track of the tickets I submit.

I remember reading an admin comment at some point stating that reports are handled by human employees and not any automation, but never bookmarked or saved it.

In short

At 08/15/24 08:54:14 in conservativeterrorism with a score of yall:

There's plenty of people who protest against Israeli atrocities in Palestine in good faith. They're not right wing ops.

I am certain you do not wish to argue that several years ago you assaulted me at Tanglewood Forest. Several of your fellow company members have chased me and thwapped me with Amtgard -legal boffer weapons on Company Road while I was making announcements on behalf of Kingdom Officers.