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This is the worst idea I've read on HN and shows you've never actually dealt with users at scale.
The moment your algorithm is visible, users will know how to beat it. Your list of 'trigger keywords' becomes a weapon both to harass normal users (by potentially tricking them into writing the trigger weapons) as well as by trolls because they know exactly how to modify the word to get around the filter.
Social media is no different from a game, and when people figure out how a game works, they learn how to break it.
Clinical trials weren't sped up: there's your problem.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-319
> "Operation Warp Speed was a federal effort that supported multiple COVID-19 vaccine candidates to speed up development. We analyzed the program's vaccine candidates and found that their development followed traditional practices, with some adaptations. For example, some clinical trial phases overlapped with each other and with animal studies to accelerate development."
Notice this probably played a role in the fact that the clinical trials didn't reveal that the vaccines didn't have much effect in preventing transmission (although severity of symptoms was clearly reduced).
This discussion would have led to a perma-ban on the main Covid subreddits, I believe.
Right, but GP was misrepresenting this. Having phases 1 and 2 overlap when phase 1 is clearly going well was at worst a risk to the phase 2 participants. It wasn't skimping on the length of phase 2 or 3, so there was never an increased risk of dangerous vaccines for the public.
> Notice this probably played a role in the fact that the clinical trials didn't reveal that the vaccines didn't have much effect in preventing transmission (although severity of symptoms was clearly reduced).
I don't think measuring reduction in transmission is a primary concern of vaccine trials? It also seems quite hard to do, without a significant proportion of the population being vaccinated.
phase 1 is for safety
phase 2 is for efficacy
phase 3 is for dosage
They're not the same. Shortening Phase 1 is automatically a compromise with safety.
The reason for sequencing, in the abstract, would be that if Phase 2 looks like "hey, this thing really works!" then the pressure to approve it would become irresistible. Whereas if Phase 1 finds unacceptable side effects, then Phase 2 would never start.
Note again that I'm not saying that's what happened.
Irrelevant "actually"ing after being objectively wrong. Don't cherry pick to shutdown a conversation: and if you do don't be wrong in your attack.
OP was clearly said the trials were sped up and that compromised safety. That's nonsense.
Regardless, you did not argue against the posters main point but instead chose to push back against what you thought would be an easy win and you did so with a factually incorrect rebuttal.