[tomcam]

Animal torture? I get tons of hilarious animal shorts on Twitter but never animal torture. I train the algo by liking these vids. I do get fight, real estate, web design, shuffle dance, and guitar vids for the same reason. Could you perhaps be feeding the algorithm? Why would you get more than one or two after downvoting? And are the torture videos downvoted or removed by staff? Mind posting an example?

[bowsamic]

> Could you perhaps be feeding the algorithm?

I don't know but it shouldn't even be a possibility to train the algorithm to give animal torture videos

> Why would you get more than one or two after downvoting?

How do you downvote on X?

> And are the torture videos downvoted or removed by staff?

Again I don't know what "downvoted" means in the context of X. I can't see any kind of score or anything. In my experience they are not removed by staff unless the animal is mammalian.

> Mind posting an example?

I've deleted my account, but I wouldn't post them here anyway

[tomcam]

> How do you downvote on X?

Click ellipsis, then block or mute

[bowsamic]

Okay then yes I was doing that and even so the content was still appearing more and more rapidly. I know many others who've had the same problem specifically with animal torture videos. Frankly, the platform is not fun when there is always a good chance of seeing animals being tortured. I think I'm being downvoted because people think I'm exaggerating, but I'm really not. Here's an article about it https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/cat-dog-torture-video...

[rideontime]

Do you have any actual evidence that muting or blocking an account "trains" the "algorithm" to show you fewer accounts like that, or is this just based on your own observations? If the latter, can you share your data?

[tomcam]

Purely anecdata and common sense. A large commercial enterprise can’t survive that kind of thing for very long. My Twitter feed has been aggressively G-rated from day 1