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Mechanism to disable or neutralize vote buying for community note users #164

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Licsak25 opened this issue Nov 16, 2023 · 5 comments
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@Licsak25
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There is an account with a large number of followers that asked people to vote "useless" on the community notes attached to their posts.

https://twitter.com/tezheya/status/1724378192977498289

In fact, notes that were supposed to be "useful'' at one point were rendered "useless'' due to organized voting actions.

Can Community Notes withstand these vote-buying practices?

@elvey
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elvey commented Nov 17, 2023

Looking into this, brings up another issue which is that there’s no facility for translating community notes, unlike tweets. Yeah, I could cut and paste into a translation app or use a browser that can translate the whole page but no reason they should be harder to translate than tweets — with a click.

@Intina47
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What if we added a layer of accountability to Community Notes? Imagine if, when someone dislikes a note, they have to provide a detailed reason. These reasons would be publicly reviewed, and if a dislike reason is not approved, a full report explaining the decision would be available for users to check.
To avoid bias, those creating reports would be validated and held accountable for their feedback. Dislikes would need a certain number of approvals to be considered valid, and a summary report of why it's approved would be provided.

@BDPershing
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shock pulse noises
Both vote brigading and vote buying is prevalent way to influence the CN system.
First question is how does CN even determine "diverse backgrounds?"
Is it based on those being followed? The voter? What determines the diversity of the voter? Is it based on their stated description?

First way to avoid such an issue is if the voter is subscribed/following the person who has a CN pending on them. Those following the person with the CN on their post will be more willing to downgrade/vote negative on that note. Is it a guarantee? No, since people hate follow aswell. Though if they're hate following it could lead to a useful way of preventing CN abuse by individuals who just don't like the targeted user.
So my suggestion is a way to weigh those who are subscribed/following the individual with a CN on their posts. Less than those who are not, chances of those not subscribed to the content will be more open to the CN rather than using the opportunity to drown CN that negatively impact the poster.

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