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>>benhur+(OP)
This happens again and again. I have had that happen to my twitter account. I see this regulary on HN.

My suspicion is that this is mostly happening because platforms that big like google or twitter rely very heavily on machine learning and other AI related technology to ban people. Because honestly, the amount of spam and abuse that are likely happening on these platforms has to be mind boggling high.

So I get why they would try to automate bans.

But after years and years of regular high profile news of false positives, one would think they eventually would change something.

I mean the guy had direct business with Google going on....

Why would they continue like that. Isn't there one single PR person at Google?

>>p410n3+Y2
> Because honestly, the amount of spam and abuse that are likely happening on these platforms has to be mind boggling high.

So hire more people. You can't argue that you can't do your work properly because your AI is not yet up to the task.

>>ameliu+op
You think humans are better at spotting abuse? Mods on Reddit demonstrate that such systems can be worse.

>>koheri+qE
You've shown that it's possible for human moderation to be awful, you haven't shown that it's impossible for human moderation to work well. It is possible. HackerNews is a fine example.

Paid moderators can have their work supervised (a 'meta-moderation system') akin to Slashdot.