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by ebonnafoux 85 days ago
They repeat only six sentences during 100+ comments:

Worked like a charm, much appreciated.

This was the answer I was looking for.

Thanks, that helped!

Thanks for the tip!

Great explanation, thanks for sharing.

This was the answer I was looking for.
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dec0dedab0de 85 days ago
Over the last ~15 years I have been shocked by the amount of spam on social networks that could have been caught with a Bayesian filter. Or in this case, a fairly simple regex.
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PunchyHamster 84 days ago
It's the bear trash lock problem all over again.

It could be solved by the filter but filter would also have a bunch of false positives

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howlin 83 days ago
It seems like if the content is this hollow and useless, it shouldn't matter if it was a human or spambot posting it.
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Imustaskforhelp 85 days ago
Well, large companies/corporations don't care about Spam because they actually benefit from spam in a way as it boosts their engagement ratio

It just doesn't have to be spammed enough that advertisers leave the platform and I think that they sort of succeed in doing so.

Think about it, if Facebook shows you AI slop ragebait or any rage-inducing comment from multiple bots designed to farm attention/for malicious purposes in general, and you fall for it and show engagement to it on which it can show you ads, do you think it has incentive to take a stance against such form of spam

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dewey 84 days ago
> Well, large companies/corporations don't care about Spam because they actually benefit from spam in a way as it boosts their engagement ratio

I'm not sure that's actually true. It's just that at scale this is still a hard problem that you don't "just" fix by running a simple filter as there will be real people / paying customers getting caught up in the filter and then complain.

Having "high engagement" doesn't really help you if you are optimizing for advertising revenue, bots don't buy things so if your system is clogged up by fake traffic and engagement and ads don't reach the right target group that's just a waste.

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dec0dedab0de 85 days ago
Yeah, I almost included that part in my comment, but it still sucks.
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