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Maybe A will have major newspapers as members and B will have most small town papers, and C will have tech blogs and D will have right-wing political blogs, or something. The fee gets divided up between the members based on page views.

Lighten up Al.

tldr; heavy moderation actually causes trolling on sites like Reddit.

>taking extreme action against small infractions can exacerbate antisocial behavior (e.g., unfairness can cause users to write worse). Though average classifier precision is relatively high (0.80), one in five users identified as antisocial are nonetheless misclassified. Whereas trading off overall performance for higher precision and have a human moder- ator approve any bans is one way to avoid incorrectly blocking innocent users, a better response may instead involve giving antisocial users a chance to redeem themselves.

The whole thing with Pao got out of control because somebody was routinely deleting comments and shadowbanning people who mentioned the trouble her husband was in. Whether it was her, another admin or a moderator doing the banning that was what fueled the fire.

Moderation on Reddit is insane, a single basement dweller with sociopathic tendencies (99% of forum moderators everywhere) can control the conversation totally, they constantly ban discussion that they don't agree with and there is absolutely no transparency. It happens to be a wonderful way of incubating hate groups by eliminating cross pollination of ideas, but it also tends to piss people off.

The trick is to follow people you don't know on Rdio, find a weird album you like, see who listened to it and if they have good taste in music follow them. Then see who they're following, etc etc. Forget about playlists just focus on albums. Try not to follow people you know personally and be ruthless in unfollowing people because it only takes one Drake fan to pollute your Trending page.

But yes Apple Music is horrible. It's the first time I've gotten the sense that Apple really doesn't know what they're doing and that's a scary thought.

It's never very logical, someone shadowbans the first person to make a comment about Pao's husband but leaves the rest alone. My pet theory is another admin is making it look like Pao is doing it to build a case against her for her dismissal because it only creates a bigger shitstorm.

>of the 316 million people living in the U.S. are online, according to recent estimates by Pew Research Center and Forrester Research, that would equate to roughly $159 per person per year

So yeah about $50 for a family of four per month.

Plus since then there's been the invention of these Taboola and Outbrain type ads which are like the ISIS of advertising. Because of them I'm sensing a lot more people are ready to declare war on web ads.

I'm not even sure they're selling anything anymore, most web ads seem more like psychological warfare.

How about a subscription service - and it could be a voluntary honor system thing - where you pay something each month and it gets distributed to websites you visit, and in order for a site to register with the service they have to forgo advertising. I'd pay $10 a month to do my part to rid the world of web ads. Somebody steal that idea.

How about telling us what's on sale at nearby grocery or hardware stores?

Facebook is creepy, most people hate it and hate themselves for using it. Everybody knows somebody who lost friends because of it, or who broke up or got divorced. It's supposedly cited in one out of seven divorce cases. In terms of branding it's pretty toxic.

I don't know how long it will be around, probably for a while (if you run Facebook and Snapchat through Google trends Snapchat barely registers) but brand loyalty isn't going to keep it afloat.

I don't know if this is a lesson about being nice or a lesson about dealing with different personality types, I guess it depends on how much of an asshole you actually were. Personally I'd prefer an environment where you call my work "shit" and I say you have your head up your ass, it saves time and it's better than passive-aggressive weirdness and underhandedness but not everybody is like that.

Any place where people are arbitrarily fired is going to be toxic though, the reaction from the CTO and a few other things I've heard about Facebook kind of makes me think that's what's going on.

If they really want to make the world a better place they should come up with some way of spotting some of the verifiably false news stories that get posted there. They could do it nicely, maybe: "Hey did you know this story may contain many factual errors? Check it out on Snopes.com!" Facebook could even set up their own fact checking service if they wanted to, it would be good PR for them.

And it's important to be nice but you have to be able to say "this sucks" sometimes too. With a guy like this Boz who's doing a good job but has a natural inclination to steamroll people maybe they should have set him up with some sturdier folks and let them fight it out instead of creating an atmosphere where he's afraid of being fired for being direct. That sounds like poor management, IMO.

But seriously, using the "Billboard Hot 100" is pretty unscientific, that list says more about mass media than it does about musical styles. For example in the early 90s there was a lot of independent radio stations fueling that boom that were gobbled up a few years later. MTV was also huge and was getting pretty weird with 120 Minutes and Yo MTV Raps. The music being produced hadn't necessarily changed but more people were suddenly hearing it.

And now because of how schizophrenic everything is, the Hot 100 is a list of names most people have heard of but nobody actually listens to: http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100 Okay maybe not NOBODY, but since radio airplay is a key consideration that list has all kinds of problems.

Oh boy here we go. Anybody who's ever followed a Drudge link to a news site that uses Facebook comments knows that isn't true.

The Internet is inherently toxic. Right now we're all like Marie Curie fascinated by this glowing thing we found but eventually we'll figure out that although you can do amazing things with it prolonged exposure will kill you.

I won't be switching to their new music service.