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by fishcolorbrick 3052 days ago
I guess I get it - but how do you measure when the toxicity level falls low enough?

What is the LD50 of a social network?

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Since its entirely user provided, I don't think its going to ever be.
Does this imply that user-provided content is fundamentally incompatible with an ad-funded model?

There seems to be massive inertia on both sides: advertisers don't want to be placed next to user-provided content, and users want to pay for content via ad views. I wonder which is easier to change?

I also guess I get it - is the parent referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster ...?