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by jjoonathan 1418 days ago
Yes, although I would add an attention threshold too, as it's not entirely unknown for hired manual review to just spam the "guilty" button so they can get to lunch. In any case: your false positive rate needs to be massively low if you want to be a massive asshole to the people it flags -- or else you are just an asshole.

If you can afford to get the FPR down, sure, have fun, but if not, please have the decency to not pretend.

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You can implement a jury trial system - have a pool of moderators, select a few at random and have them look at the account, only flagging it if there is a consensus that it’s a scam account
That scale doesn't really work for small startups