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-Short Attention Span Theater-
10 dislikes will delete Facebook posts
2015-09-22
[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

#15  "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..."

That should be easy enough to test. We can probably get enough volunteers on the burg to do so if so desired. Could even pick a bland post specifically to test things.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-09-22 15:06  

#14  I like the idea of a dislike button, I loath the idea that it can be used to censor others. Personally I like Silentbrick's take. SJW are going to use this, might as well hit them first so they are the ones clambering for Facebook to remove the horrible feature.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-09-22 15:04  

#13  Or a troll can make ten different accounts, and never have to leave the basement.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-09-22 13:49  

#12  Shouldn't they have at least a likes vs. dislikes counter? If my picture of my ultra cute 18 month old granddaughter gets 1000 likes, and then ten curmudgeons dislike the post, does it disappear?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2015-09-22 12:03  

#11  Facebook? What's that?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-09-22 11:53  

#10  I suspect they are responding to the many statements of "I want to dislike this," about something the writer then goes on to discuss. If such comments will make people's posts disappear from their own pages, a lot of people will be very unhappy with the whole thing, and it will devolve to pictures of grandchildren and birthday wishes. One already can not see posts in discussions from people whose opinions one dislikes, or to whom it is simple impossible to be civil. Some of the friends of one's friends clearly must be left over from their joint childhood, or perhaps are relatives of their otherwise delightful spouses.
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-09-22 11:40  

#9  Three words: "denial of service" ie have a concerted action to delete psosts. The meft has ever been very good at this.

Posted by: JFM   2015-09-22 10:15  

#8  I see this as an assuming thing to do on the rig. I wonder if the SJW's are ready for the full scale attack on their own stuff that is about to happen.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2015-09-22 09:48  

#7  They already have a "I don't want to see this" option that lets each person pick which items should be hidden from their view.

Why do 10 other people get to pick what I don't want to see?
Posted by: ExtremeModerate   2015-09-22 09:44  

#6  Facebook has officially declared suicide. Is there something else on the horizon to fill the void?

Rupert Murdock has owned MySpace for some time, has he managed to get that mess back into shape, I mean seriously remove the customizations that only tweens enjoyed and you have almost duplicated Facebook right there. Just rename/rebrand it and go.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-09-22 09:19  

#5  Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.
So do .380 ACP bullets (see Archduke Ferdinand), which is where things go when the 'wrong' person gets personally ridiculed and retaliates.
Posted by: Glenmore   2015-09-22 08:54  

#4  This is nothing new. The 'Wikipedia Trolls' have been deleting 'offending' information for years.

It's how the left works.

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2015-09-22 08:46  

#3  Suppose I round up 10 people and dislike Facebook's policies. Will this stop FB?
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-09-22 08:34  

#2  but I'm even more of a cynic than Fred, in case you hadn't yet guessed that...

Piker! Proclamations and boasting will never gain you an invitation. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Cynics of which I am a Regional Deputy Grand Master, is highly selective. Please be patient and wait to be contacted like the rest.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-09-22 06:43  

#1  With this particular implementation, Facebook will become next to unusable. The only reason I'm on there is because of my relatively newfound duty of CIO of my high school class (reunion stuff). Other than that, it's just a timewaster / useless.
Posted by: Raj   2015-09-22 00:43  

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