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10 dislikes will delete Facebook posts
[Dhaka Tribune] Facebook is going to adopt a policy of removing a post for carrying 10 dislikes, According to Mark Zuckerberg.
A really stupid idea. Lots of people will "dislike" political posts or discussion of crimes. So they go bye-bye after ten posts? I guess this was developed by Professor Pangloss so we could live in the Best of All Possible Worlds.
It all depends, of course, how the dislikes are counted. If Fred and I, and eight of our bestest Burg pals, down-thumb some whacko post on Facebook penned by the ISIS, the Democrats or some other evil-doer, will our dislikes be counted? Or will they be 'lost'? Perhaps they'll be weighted. Fred and I each get a vote of 0.00001, while some social justice wanker ("SJW", as the initials go) who knows a customer support rep at Facebook gets a '10' right on the spot. I think I know how this plays out, but I'm even more of a cynic than Fred, in case you hadn't yet guessed that...
Facebook has recently released this new information on its planned integration of a dislike button into user posts that will likely to be active in removal of the facebook post.

The number being bandied around by Zuckerberg and Facebook developers at the moment is ten dislikes, and receiving ten dislikes on your post will result in Facebook’s algorithms removing the post as being potentially disruptive and upsetting to fellow users, USA today reports.

“Facebook is about connections and bringing people together,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said regarding the upcoming changes.

“Occasionally our users are subjected to things that they find upsetting, are objectionable, and violate the community standards. It (dislike option) allows us to remove objectionable material, but requires us to maintain a large workforce to process post reports at great expense. It is also both cumbersome and slow. Many inappropriate and hurtful posts can remain up for extended periods of time before a moderator is able to examine the material of the post and remove it if necessary.”He said.

“At the same time that we have this inefficient system of reporting we also have had user requests to integrate a dislike button into user posts for several years”, Zuckerberg continued.

“We realised that by combining the two functions, reporting and the existence of a dislike button, that not only could we streamline the removal of objectionable material from Facebook but we could also achieve massive cost savings as the amount of employees needed to monitor and process reports was entirely eliminated. It’s a win for our shareholders as we increase profitability and it’s a win for users who will be able to police the potentially psychologically harmful material they are exposed to in real-time.”
Posted by: Fred 2015-09-22
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