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Changing the incentives of a situation, such as raising the effort required to get a harassing message through the filters, isn't a "purely technical solution"
by NotAtWork 12y ago
Changing the incentives of a situation, such as raising the effort required to get a harassing message through the filters, isn't a "purely technical solution" any more than most economics strategies are.
I'd argue it's making use of technology to make a people oriented solution: people do less of things that are harder to do, and seeing less garbage even if you still see some makes the place seem more pleasant.
> I'd like to think we can do better than "sorry about the rape/murder threats, we'll try to hide most of them from you"
The best we can ever do, without swerving way out in to super repressive regimes, is impact the rate at which it happens, the response of other people, etc and not that it happens at all.