Lol, they were biased 20 years ago when I debated.
It all depends on the local community judges are recruited from.
I lost rounds multiple times with the only note being “Global warming is a lie”
Nobody wants to judge debate tournaments except former debaters and parents forced into it by their students.
You get what you get when it comes to debate judges.
The author of the article is clearly biased themselves.
I think that one of the most difficult things to deal with more common bots, spamming, reposting, etc.
Is that parsing all the commentary and dealing with it on a service wide level is really hard to do, in terms of computing power and sheer volume of content. Seems to me that do this on an instance level with user numbers in the 10’s of thousands is a heck of a lot more reasonable than doing it on a 10’s of millions of users service.
What I’m getting at is that this really seems like something that could (maybe even should) be built into the instance moderation tools, at least some method of marking user activity as suspicious for further investigation by human admins/mods.
We’re really operating on the assumption that people spinning up instances are acting in good faith, until they prove that they aren’t, I think the first step is giving good faith actors the tools to moderate effectively, then worrying about bad faith admins.
“…Nah.”
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