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> "Turns out managing communication for nearly the entire human race is hard! And requires a lot of people"

Who are you quoting? Not me, I didn't say that. You've constructed a strawman and then replied to that.

> I can't feel pity

No one asked for pity. I merely pointed out a couple of ways in which the system can fail. It's failed in the past and will fail in the future, hopefully less.

I feel like you really wanted to get all of this off your chest and then replied to me because the comment was high up.



>> "Turns out managing communication for nearly the entire human race is hard! And requires a lot of people"

> Who are you quoting? Not me, I didn't say that. You've constructed a strawman and then replied to that.

Yeah that confused me too. I'm guessing this is what they were referring to, which conveys a similar sentiment:

>> "With time I learned that any system that’s meant to work for millions of users will have some edge cases that need to be papered over."


I read your comment a bit like a defense of Facebook, saying "you know, when you scale to millions of people, it's really hard and expensive! Cut them a bit of slack"

I don't disagree that these problems are hard when you scale to millions of users. Just pointing out that Facebook were the ones who chose to scale to millions of users before their moderation systems were ready.

For what it's worth, thank you for doing your part in helping to fix the system.




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