Lumifer comments on Could auto-generated troll scores reduce Twitter and Facebook harassments? - Less Wrong

0 Post author: Stefan_Schubert 30 April 2015 02:05PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 30 April 2015 03:39:57PM 11 points [-]

You could of course extend this scheme, and construct all sorts of scores - such as a "liberal-conservative score", with whose help you could block anyone whose political opinions are insufficiently close to yours. That would be a very bad idea, in my view. Scores of this sort should only be used to combat harassment, threats and other forms of anti-social behaviour, and not to exclude any dissenter from discussion.

You give people a tool to build echo chambers, they will build echo chambers for themselves. Your views on what constitutes a "bad idea" would be irrelevant at this point. Not to mention that many interpret the existence of people "whose political opinions are insufficiently close" as harassment and threat by itself.