• DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I live in a “first past the post” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those parties. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in fringe cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry too much about the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% of the time. Any (democratic) system is better than what we have now.

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      22 days ago

      I live in a “first past the post” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those parties. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in fringe cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry too much about the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% of the time. Any (democratic) system is better than what we have now.

  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 days ago

    These are probably comments on this Veritasium video which actually pretty informative.

    That being said, I also live in a “first past the post” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those parties. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in fringe cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry too much about the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% of the time. Any (democratic) system is better than what we have now.

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    21 days ago

    They’re not just “casually” stealing comments. They steal a random comment from the video, then have a bunch of other bots give it a bunch of thumbs up so that it appears towards the top and accumulates more upvotes than most human comments make. 95% of the time it seems, the real comment has one or two upvotes and is buried so far you have to scroll multiple pages to reach it.

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      21 days ago

      I’ve also seen a comment where other bots argued with themselves in the replies and ended up recommending a scam.

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        21 days ago

        I don’t often invest in a 401k but when I do I use shady services recommended to me by bots.

    • smokebuddy [he/him]@lemmy.today
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      21 days ago

      it also makes it a lot harder for skeptics taking a look at their account to reveal they’re a bot. When every actual post is a clear copy and paste but the history is mixed with comments that seem legitimate it takes more digging that’s just not worth doing

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    22 days ago

    I suppose that taking a comment and adding breasts is a reasonably-straightforward, mechanical way to make it more appealing.

    This does kind of suggest a potential endgame for what avatars wind up looking like.

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      22 days ago

      I suppose that taking a comment and adding breasts is a reasonably-straightforward, mechanical way to make it more appealing.

      This does kind of suggest a potential endgame for what avatars wind up looking like.

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        I suppose that taking a comment and adding breasts is a reasonably-straightforward, mechanical way to make it more appealing.

        This does kind of suggest a potential endgame for what avatars wind up looking like.

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      21 days ago

      I suppose that taking a comment and adding breasts is a reasonably-straightforward, mechanical way to make it more appealing.

      ( . )Y( . )

      This does kind of suggest a potential endgame for what avatars wind up looking like.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    that’s YouTube right? They let these bots roam free and shadow ban half of my legit comments. The most infuriating is when the bot gets more likes than the original comment.

    edit: I just read the comment and noticed this is probably about the new veritasium video.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      …why are you commenting on YOUTUBE??? You can’t even track how well your comments did, or what your highest rated comments are. Then half the people change their display names, and trying to follow the conversation just becomes a jumbled mess.

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    It doesn’t surprise me. I live in a “first past the post” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those parties. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in fringe cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry about the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% all of the time. Any (democratic) system is better than what we have now, even if it involves come bot casually stealing comments. 🙃

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      21 days ago

      I guess?

      I’m all for voting reform, promoting easy access to voting for everyone, breaking the grip of the 2 party system, and dismantling junk like the electoral college.

      But we’re a little more than 2 months from a major election. It’s unlikely that these ideas are going to be picked up and championed as campaign promise. So it makes me wonder why they’re being parroted now. I suspect it’s to highlight that our system isn’t always great and discourage people from voting.

      They’re not saying “my vote doesn’t matter”, but that’s kind of the vibe it gives off, while suggesting an unrealistic, idealistic solution. 🤷‍♂️

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        21 days ago

        I’ll add in, Ranked Choice is a bad choice. The “edge cases” mentioned in the post can happen in any and every election using the system.

        If Ranked Choice were the only option besides what we have, it would be a slight improvement, but there are far better options.

        STAR is simple, and does everything that RCV claims to do, but actually fails to do.

        Something to keep in mind for the push to reform voting laws after this election.

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      21 days ago

      Was someone who lives in a Democratic country I can say that what your describing is actually called copypasta

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    21 days ago

    It’s the same bot of the other post!

    This time the bot accidentally copied a popular comment, usually they copy a comment with no likes, then have other bots to send hundreds of likes to make it prominent over the other and have the algorithm show it more often

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    21 days ago

    Gee that Barbara sure does manage to be insightful on a lot of different topics. I try not be presumptuous but sometimes I really do feel surprised that she has so much more depth to her than her modelling career might make you think. Truly a polymath.

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    20 days ago

    Calling it “stealing comments” is an interesting way of rewording for what is obviously bot spam.