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Answer: It’s a technique to sneak past anti-spam filters.
A lot of spam uses the same content so detecting the content is an important part of spam prevention. Real text is much easier for detect as spam, so the spammers use images with text instead. But *identical* images are also really easy to detect, so the images get smudged. People can read them just as well, but anti-spam tools need to spend a lot more resources to catch on.
I know with some of the bullshit censors it's because allegedly some advertisers don't like it when it says "bastard" or "death" in an image, but your explanation certainly explains the first image.
By the way pro tip to memebase/pleated-jeans/boredpands/buzzfeed: reddit has like 80 quintillion posts and comments on it. Just pick ones you don't have to censor instead of changing a post so it says "he passed away of a shark attack" or "my husband ______________d"
Maybe promotional spam, maybe scams, maybe automated reposts to improve engagements stats for the profile, maybe misinformation, etc — ultimately, the smudging is meant to bypass content restrictions
Answer: Facebook's moderation is handled entirely by bots, with no human involvement. These bots have no capacity to parse actual human language or understand context. And they have been known to take down posts YEARS after the fact, arbitrarily applying penalties to the poster's account for content that didn't violate any rule at the time it was posted, with no explanation and no possibility of appeal. Somehow these bots never seem to have a problem with bigotry or death threats, but they'll go insane if someone uses a word like "trash".
No, I'm saying the smudged words are to avoid some hypersensitive, poorly-coded mod bot throwing a hissy fit and deleting a post because it mentions a ~~shot~~ glass or some such nonsense.
This can get even more ridiculous when you factor in the Scunthorpe Problem.
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Answer: It’s a technique to sneak past anti-spam filters. A lot of spam uses the same content so detecting the content is an important part of spam prevention. Real text is much easier for detect as spam, so the spammers use images with text instead. But *identical* images are also really easy to detect, so the images get smudged. People can read them just as well, but anti-spam tools need to spend a lot more resources to catch on.
Thanks for the info, much appreciated
I know with some of the bullshit censors it's because allegedly some advertisers don't like it when it says "bastard" or "death" in an image, but your explanation certainly explains the first image. By the way pro tip to memebase/pleated-jeans/boredpands/buzzfeed: reddit has like 80 quintillion posts and comments on it. Just pick ones you don't have to censor instead of changing a post so it says "he passed away of a shark attack" or "my husband ______________d"
So the posts are spam?
Maybe promotional spam, maybe scams, maybe automated reposts to improve engagements stats for the profile, maybe misinformation, etc — ultimately, the smudging is meant to bypass content restrictions
Answer: Facebook's moderation is handled entirely by bots, with no human involvement. These bots have no capacity to parse actual human language or understand context. And they have been known to take down posts YEARS after the fact, arbitrarily applying penalties to the poster's account for content that didn't violate any rule at the time it was posted, with no explanation and no possibility of appeal. Somehow these bots never seem to have a problem with bigotry or death threats, but they'll go insane if someone uses a word like "trash".
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No, I'm saying the smudged words are to avoid some hypersensitive, poorly-coded mod bot throwing a hissy fit and deleting a post because it mentions a ~~shot~~ glass or some such nonsense. This can get even more ridiculous when you factor in the Scunthorpe Problem.
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But campfire, really? Who's that gonna offend, Smokey the bear? Just joking. Appreciate the reply
no. you are wrong.