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Why am I modding Twitter, for free?

  • 24-03-2024 1:20pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,415 ✭✭✭


    So I signed up to twitter Community Notes team there a couple weeks ago, and now any post in my feed that has a pending note on it asks me to rate it, and you click in and there could be four or five competing notes to consider, and verify (if you want), and maybe the same amount of notes arguing that a note isn't needed at all...

    There's some drama in it and it's great craic, but I'm thinking to myself "I could be doing this, or something similar, on boards, also for free..."



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,439 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    LinkedIn have introduced something similar and it’s simply to drive engagement on the platform. It’s the “Ask An Expert” thing where people are invited to answer questions. I’ve no idea how to stop it or block it or turn off the notifications because it’s just incredibly annoying.

    If anyone knows how to stop it that’d be great 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,862 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    I haven't seen the Mouth Breathers mentioned on Boards for a few years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭DialecticAspirations


    My understanding of Community Notes is that it's an improved version of what Wikipedia does to verify/curate information.

    Wikipedia's obvious flaw is the bias among it's moderators, leading to obviously bias political pages (especially biographies). For non political information it remains a fantastic resource, though.

    Community Notes tries to fix this bias issue by having a variety of political beliefs amongst the moderators, and a kind of voting system when it comes to verifying/contradicting information posted.

    You'd obviously know more than I, since you're actually involved it, but judging by the posts in this thread, a lot of people don't actually know what it is. (I hope. Perhaps they do and they just don't agree with removing bias.)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Paterson Jerins


    Admits to trolling on twitter. But never does that on boards, apparently???

    And this poster says they are online 90mins a day and makes €150k.

    wum



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Kat1170


    Elon ???

    Great guy, convinced me to close my Twatter account and I actually don't miss it at all.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,522 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I've no idea why someone would work for such a vile, hateful man as Musk for free. If you enjoy it, go for it. I think the place is too much of a cesspit to lift a finger helping to maintain it.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,522 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    It'll get replaced by Truth Social or another incel cesspit. Twitter or something identical is here to stay.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,415 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    It's hardly 'working for musk', it's a bit of craic like a private forum where you can up vote or down vote stuff like...

    Or

    I don't particularly write notes myself, but any post with a potential note attached is visible to me and I can click in and see what's being said



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,415 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    🥔🔄📡



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,415 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    🐸🐷



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,283 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    I get asked to do it in English & Spanish, damned bilingualism has me in demand and sure being retired? It gives me something to do 🧐

    Post edited by banie01 on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,238 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    This all back to then not being responsible for the content on their platform clause that means they’re not publisher. If they employ people as gate keepers or editors of what is on the site, they are liable for anything posted.
    This free community notes way, they avoid liability, cost and keep people coming to the site.

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,540 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    I have no idea why someone would be a moderator on boards and work for free .If you enjoy it , go for it.I think Boards is too much of a cesspit to lift a finger helping maintain it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,238 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    The motoring forum had lost all its mods bar one. Zombie threads and personal abuse, while not rampant, are not dealt with quickly anymore or just ignored.

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,522 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    What's it like, being bilingual? Out of curiosity?

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,283 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    It's great for broader based views on the world. My Spanish reading and aural comprehension is v.good but I have an awful accent still when speaking it. Mainly due to not living there anymore and a lack of use on my part.

    I started learning when I moved to Spain in 90's. Spent 4 yrs living there in total and travel back often. I do get tied up sometimes when I have to run through my thoughts in my head in English before I try and get them out in Spanish.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭Burt Renaults


    Hopefully Apartheid Clyde will get bored of it and sell it to an adult.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,204 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Fair play OP, Those Notes can be very useful and revealing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭thereiver


    they have to remove some content , they have moderators , you are wrong the law do,es not say if you have no moderators you wo,nt be help responsible for content posted by users .all social media including twitter has staff to deal with the police and government officials who will ask for content to be removed .twiiter has been banned in some countrys for political extremist content posted by users. Since elon took over more extreme incel or political content has been encouraged .most large advertisers have chosen to stop placing ads there .but most actors writers and politicans are still using twitter because it has a global reach and its a good platform to reach a wide audience



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭ThePentagon




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,415 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    seeing as they're both Irish, they might be like 12th cousins or something



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭beachhead


    Elon will take a while to get thru his billons.But even so they are plenty of richery around around who will sponsor it with hard cash.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,415 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Who the hell would try to Community Note a post like that?

    ...oh right, yeah



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