Then it’s not engagement. We have to stop this nonsense.
Also, we need laws making bots that pretend to be real users illegal. We’re heading for some black mirror shit otherwise.
The platform owners don’t consider engagement to me be participation in meaningful discourse. Engagement to them just means staying on the platform while seeing ads.
If bots keep people doing that those platforms will keep letting them in.
Which is a good argument for regulation. Regulation prevents industry from doing things that may be in their individual best interest but are against public best interests or the best interests of the industry as a whole.
in other words, more societal disruption and mental health problems.
And this is what happens when the measure becomes the target
Sounds like you’ve been afflicted with management a time or two in your past.
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No fucking shit, Sherlock. In other news: “water is wet” and “fire is hot”, and later “capitalism does nothing for non-capitalists, and should be overthrown”
Why is this not top comment?
Quantity over quality…
I think the phrase they are seeking is signal to noise. The bots make noise but bury the signal making it harder to actually find and communicate with others who are actually engaging. Weird how that works.
No shit, Sherlock
Like UV light and moths. Just shine the light within an electrified fence and watch them pop.
