I got an ad once for a group selling stolen credit card numbers too. I must have reported it at least a dozen times but it was always kept up and the report said it didn’t break any rules. It only got removed after I just skipped Facebook reports and reported to the police.
We get posts here too, and on Reddit
The posts here get reported and removed very quickly, sometimes within minutes of the account being created or the first post.
I searched Reddit for the website they were linking and saw the spam posts on Reddit have been up for months.
Few possible differences:
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We have a better ratio of users/moderation, where the lower volume of posts means everything can go through human moderators
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Our users are more actively trying to keep the platform good by reporting spam
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The incentive here is to create a good online platform. The inventive there is profit. The priorities are different as a result
Great points.
I might add:
I strongly suspect that a much bigger fraction of the free volunteer labor moved here, than anyone has realized.
Zuck and Spez know how fucked they are, but they’re motivated to downplay the damage to their platforms.
There’s an unvirtuous cycle where their platforms have under-resourced moderation, which has allowed bot proliferation, which has made unpaid moderation work a shittier job, which causes moderators to leave, which allows more bot proliferation.
Folks here seem to be saying our moderation tools are objectively poor, but are getting better with each release. So it’s the bot spammers whose life gets harder, over time, here.
It isn’t just those factors. There’s also the fact that instance owners would rather moderate than get on the wrong side of the law.
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I’d be shocked if cops did anything with that. Local police are incompetent (and, to be fair, waaay under resourced) when it comes to cybercrimes. Who did you report it to?
I probably don’t live in your country 😉
Same here when I got DM’d a telegram channel for hard drugs. The user was never taken down or warned.
In my experience several years ago, Facebook was actually super fast to take down bad groups. I must’ve been reporting so many and with such reliability that they started coming down instantaneously after reporting them.
Wake me up when the “Congress” actually decides to take actions not just ask “questions” after the damage is done and money is made.
Seems more like election season shenanigans where the government wants to make a last bit effort of making it seem like they’re doing their job but then nothing happens after. Like clockwork.
Wake me up when the “Congress” actually decides to take actions not just ask “questions” after the damage is done and money is made.
Right. Into Cryo-Sleep you go, then!
Yes this is there way of looking like they’re doing something without having to actually fix it.
When they fix problems they don’t have ammo to rile up the idiots.
Facebook is the drug. It’s addictive, mind altering, exploits dopamine hits, isolates individuals in bad circles, makes you spend longer on the toilet etc. It’s literally the blue pill.
Like he gives a fuck! He’s just gonna tell them what they want to hear and then he’s going back to making millions off of fakebook
If the answer isn’t “to sell drugs” I’m going to be disappointed.
Shit, this winter, for 3 days strait, i got ads with literal swinging dicks and full on penetration. Reported ads, and moved on. After day three, i deleted the app and only launched from a sandboxed browser with an ad blocker.
Now, i only open it for the marketplace. The place was cancer anyhow, but that was just too much.
Triggggerd ! Today’s ads are targeted and way more sophisticated than years ago. Maybe watch less porn? 😆
Edit: Come on guys… You lost your sense of humor? Touch some grass, stop beeing so serious about everything… uuhhhg !
Money
Because they need so sell their drugs?
I’m more concerned with the drug dealers advertising on TV.
Gotta go to where the customers are.
If Bayer can advertise on facebook, so should too, my neighbor be allowed.
Corporations are people except when they are doing literal crimes.
Zuck and his corporation are expectedly shit; C Corp with only one motive, enrichment. Fuck Zuck and all that, but…
Congress, on the other hand, are supposed to represent the people and instead whore themselves out to the highest corporate bidders.
“Why would you do such a thing?!?” Fox #1 incredulously asked Fox #2 of his raiding of the henhouse.
