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by mschuster91 1025 days ago
> There is also an uptick in hate, e.g. overt racism, accounts that have a lot of followers and openly ask for ethnic cleansing against non-whites, etc.

Not to mention the constant bot spam. Musk promised to "get rid" of it, and yet I have to block about 10-20 bots shilling porn via follows and likes on completely random tweets and replies a day... and they're all following the same 3-4 templates for their activities and bios. Had Twitter any moderation staff left, it would take a couple minutes to write a regex to catch these porn bot bios and to take all of their accounts down at once.
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TheAceOfHearts 1025 days ago
Post-Elon takeover the amount of bot spam I encounter has definitely decreased. I'm not sure the claim of Twitter moderation is accurate, since before the takeover the problem was still present.

The problem got so bad in YouTube Comments that eventually third-party tools [0] were developed to help purge spam.

I agree that if you had a team monitoring spam they could write rules to drastically reduce spam. It's always going to be a cat and mouse game, but if the cat side was more proactive it would definitely lead to a better experience.

[0] https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge

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mschuster91 1025 days ago
Urgh, yes. YouTuber HeavyDSparks has had a long running scammer campaign against him with people naming themselves with unicode characters of numbers in circles and posting "Whatsapp me" replies to legit comments. That even someone like him with > 3M subscribers can't seem to get ahold of a YouTube CSR who can raise an issue with backend/anti-fraud developers to check for accounts using this pattern is mind-boggling and only speaks for the dysfunctionality of Google today.
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bowsamic 1025 days ago
Yep, sometimes I would be having a conversation with someone and suddenly the bots come and start liking all of our tweets for a good 10 minutes, then suddenly they go again after they realise that they aren't getting a bite. Never had that on old twitter.
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pjc50 1025 days ago
Certain people I follow always have a bot spam comment on every post. They put it in the hidden replies, and next post they make gets a very similar comment from a different bot.

Always crypto scams.

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