Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a video released Monday that he will run an independent campaign for New York City mayor, weeks after losing the Democratic primary to Zohran Mamdani.
Can you look them up, and show them to me? I came close to digging through the modlog myself, to prove that the number of times in Dec 2023 / Jan 2024 that someone was banned for posting a poll showing Biden behind was 0.
Yes and no. Yes I can, in that I’ve built out at least some of the tools to do so. I can’t in that I’m still at work today and haven’t returned to that project in quite a while.
Well, I wasn’t the one who said it was easy (and IDK that digging through the modlog is the easiest way even for someone who is sure that it happened to find out when it did), but sure. Here are all the posts from Dec 2023 and Jan 2024 that were removed that had “poll” in the title:
7554770 | 2023-12-29T13:56:49.802793Z | Sarah Huckabee Sanders lowest approval rating for governor in last 20 years, Arkansas Poll says | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/politics/sarah-huckabee-sanders-lowest-approval-rating-governor-20-years/91-c76da35b-4704-46de-abc0-0a42ee19ea95
2806047 | 2023-12-29T13:18:36.770457Z | Trump Fan Who Threatened Poll Workers And Officials Sent To Prison | https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/trump-fan-who-threatened-poll-workers-and
2461059 | 2023-12-29T13:18:19.629020Z | Donald Trump Has an Absurd Amount of Support From Republicans Who Believe He Committed “Serious Federal Crimes”: Poll | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/donald-trump-ron-desantis-2024-poll
3653177 | 2023-12-29T13:16:15.792290Z | Democrat Adam Frisch leads against Rep. Lauren Boebert in poll for 2024 race | https://www.denverpost.com/2023/08/22/adam-frisch-lauren-boebert-poll-2024-race/
10024810 | 2023-12-29T13:08:37.582079Z | Trump Shares Poll Result Predicting 'Revenge' And 'Dictatorship' As Top Priorities | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-poll-dictatorship-revenge_n_658beb48e4b0cd3cf0e41a98
I was assured there would be some that showed Biden behind in the polls, that the mods were trying to cover up…
It’s a silly thing to get hung up on, but it helps to demonstrate that the person I’m talking with is talking about some situation that didn’t happen in reality.
I mean any one could go find some examples from memory that they experienced. I could dig far enough into my comment history to find them. In-fact I was digging through some banned community members and found some examples just the other day.
What I’m doing is far, far larger in scope. I’m not trying to find one instance, I’m trying to find all of them. I’m also interested in correlating that to “shifts in the overall narrative” to the sub. And I’m trying to do this across several prominent subs. And I’m not doing this in an adhoc way. When I have results they’ll be publishable.
I’ve built some of the more important tools already which allow me to pull the entire comment history of a user and perform significant sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, etc… but some aspects aren’t reliable enough yet to be completely useful.
(scroll to the bottom, then scroll up instead of starting at the top)
The first analysis is a “trolling/ not trolling” analysis. Then its a frequency analysis. I used squid because of their preposterous number of comments. Some weeks they were commenting almost ever 3 minutes for hours on end.
If life we’re simpler I’d be further along on this project, but alas, the bills. They do not pay themselves. And its a hobby thing I’m not getting paid for, so its the last to get access to my time.
I’ve built some of the more important tools already which allow me to pull the entire comment history of a user and perform significant sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, etc… but some aspects aren’t reliable enough yet to be completely useful.
this sounds gross and very much like witch-hunting and stalking. yes, all comments are public but u coming up w a tool just to find someones and analyze and make judgement on them seems gross and out of line. think of how fasicst and controling that sounds. what if some republican was doing that and bragged about it? think about that
happened plenty and you guys still witchhunt people who didn’t seem to worship everything dem lol luckilly lemmy is so dencentralize that they don’t have to be silenced no matte rhow much u wish they were
Ozma’s ban comes to mind pretty lazily. But I’m not trying to do additional work on your behalf right now. I just had a long day and I’m done working for now.
return2ozma was banned because he was posting a nonstop flood of articles, and admitted to the mods that he basically just searched out bad stories about Biden and posted them whatever they were (even some ones he didn’t try to defend any kind of factual accuracy of), to bring “balance.”
I actually don’t agree with making that the criterion. I think it’s of a piece with lots of types of lazy and unproductive moderation that happpens on lemmy.world. But, I definitely agreed with banning him, for the same reason that I would expect to be banned if I went to your favorite community and posted 15 stories a day about “Five things you won’t believe about what Biden accomplished during his term in office!” It’s not about the viewpoint being prohibited from anyone expressing it (and, of course, the fact that we’re having this conversation and you haven’t been banned for expressing criticism of the Democrats is an obvious counterexample to you trying to say that’s banned on LW). It’s about one person spamming to try to promote it.
But I’m not trying to do additional work on your behalf right now. I just had a long day and I’m done working for now.
You said anyone could do it, you said it was super easy, just from memory. We’d be having a different conversation if you’d said “Anyone who felt like taking a bunch of time away from their job could probably put together a script to comb through the whole database to find the single example you’re looking for, because I’m sure at least one exists, although I can’t do that whole endeavor right now I’m confident that it would work if someone did do it. I’m very tired and such a thing would be horrifying and unfair if someone asked me to do it. I just know some other person who had a lot of energy to spare could.”
I mean this isn’t really a conversation. this has been me asking as gracefully as I can to step away from the conversation and come back to it another time, and you insisting on continuing.
I think it’s a pretty normal thing for one person to say “Anyone who tried to criticize Democrats gets banned” and one person to say “When did that happen?” It’s not like I am hounding you to do my math homework. It was only in your mind that it blew up into a “task” for you to come up with an example.
Like I say, this is why I don’t really go to lemmy.world. The rules are different. People make proclamations about how it is, and then get all bent out of shape if someone expresses skepticism, like it’s a horrible unreasonable thing.
Feel free to take as much time as you need. I understand that finding examples of what you’re talking about might be challenging. I support you in the mission.
(Edit: Oh, also, we’re not on a phone call. Stepping away from Lemmy instead of replying to me, if you don’t have a reply yet, is sort of implied in the asynchronous nature of the thing.)
(back at work and on a real key board now so I can do longer formed responses)
But this is also why we need the tools I’m building. What I’m talking about can only really be “witnessed”, outside of anectdata, in the aggregate. If you wanted to help, I’m need to find specific instances of this happening and the Ozma one is low hanging fruit because the mod who did the ban said in precise language that it was being done in an effort to control the narrative (regardless of if you agree with the editorial bias or not, I think we take jordan at their word). Agreeing with the political bias of the ban, doesn’t mean it wasn’t an example of an authority (a mod) using that authority to structure the political narratives of the commons, which is what I’m trying to identify.
Specifically, there are a few mods who regularly were getting into flaming arguments which would result in them banning the counter party. flyingsquid was notorious for this, and its a task I need to do to validate a system for automatically identifying its occurrence. I need a couple real examples, so if you find any, send them my way. Some other good subs to look for are c/world and c/political_memes. Squid would regularly flame people then ban them.
And as far as “endless stream”; thanks, because that gave me another task to put on the to do list. What Ozma got banned for isn’t actually what I’m really looking for (although it could be, but its beyond my original scope). What I’m really looking for are bans related to things that happen in the comments. But it would be important to getting a complete picture to also look at someones posts and maybe try and look at how that impacts narratives. That’s a much more difficult process though, but I’m sure in review we’d get asked why we didn’t do that.
Yes and no. Yes I can, in that I’ve built out at least some of the tools to do so. I can’t in that I’m still at work today and haven’t returned to that project in quite a while.
So anyone can look it up, but in order to look it up, you’d have to build some tools and it’s a whole project?
Find a particular modlog entry from last year. See how long it takes.
Well, I wasn’t the one who said it was easy (and IDK that digging through the modlog is the easiest way even for someone who is sure that it happened to find out when it did), but sure. Here are all the posts from Dec 2023 and Jan 2024 that were removed that had “poll” in the title:
7554770 | 2023-12-29T13:56:49.802793Z | Sarah Huckabee Sanders lowest approval rating for governor in last 20 years, Arkansas Poll says | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/politics/sarah-huckabee-sanders-lowest-approval-rating-governor-20-years/91-c76da35b-4704-46de-abc0-0a42ee19ea95 2806047 | 2023-12-29T13:18:36.770457Z | Trump Fan Who Threatened Poll Workers And Officials Sent To Prison | https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/trump-fan-who-threatened-poll-workers-and 2461059 | 2023-12-29T13:18:19.629020Z | Donald Trump Has an Absurd Amount of Support From Republicans Who Believe He Committed “Serious Federal Crimes”: Poll | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/donald-trump-ron-desantis-2024-poll 3653177 | 2023-12-29T13:16:15.792290Z | Democrat Adam Frisch leads against Rep. Lauren Boebert in poll for 2024 race | https://www.denverpost.com/2023/08/22/adam-frisch-lauren-boebert-poll-2024-race/ 10024810 | 2023-12-29T13:08:37.582079Z | Trump Shares Poll Result Predicting 'Revenge' And 'Dictatorship' As Top Priorities | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-poll-dictatorship-revenge_n_658beb48e4b0cd3cf0e41a98I was assured there would be some that showed Biden behind in the polls, that the mods were trying to cover up…
It’s a silly thing to get hung up on, but it helps to demonstrate that the person I’m talking with is talking about some situation that didn’t happen in reality.
I mean any one could go find some examples from memory that they experienced. I could dig far enough into my comment history to find them. In-fact I was digging through some banned community members and found some examples just the other day.
What I’m doing is far, far larger in scope. I’m not trying to find one instance, I’m trying to find all of them. I’m also interested in correlating that to “shifts in the overall narrative” to the sub. And I’m trying to do this across several prominent subs. And I’m not doing this in an adhoc way. When I have results they’ll be publishable.
I’ve built some of the more important tools already which allow me to pull the entire comment history of a user and perform significant sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, etc… but some aspects aren’t reliable enough yet to be completely useful.
This is some example output using flyingsqids data: https://tmpweb.net/jS19ePfgNdz0/
(scroll to the bottom, then scroll up instead of starting at the top)
The first analysis is a “trolling/ not trolling” analysis. Then its a frequency analysis. I used squid because of their preposterous number of comments. Some weeks they were commenting almost ever 3 minutes for hours on end.
If life we’re simpler I’d be further along on this project, but alas, the bills. They do not pay themselves. And its a hobby thing I’m not getting paid for, so its the last to get access to my time.
this sounds gross and very much like witch-hunting and stalking. yes, all comments are public but u coming up w a tool just to find someones and analyze and make judgement on them seems gross and out of line. think of how fasicst and controling that sounds. what if some republican was doing that and bragged about it? think about that
Could you find some examples from memory that you experienced, for me?
I feel like we keep having the same conversation here.
happened plenty and you guys still witchhunt people who didn’t seem to worship everything dem lol luckilly lemmy is so dencentralize that they don’t have to be silenced no matte rhow much u wish they were
Ozma’s ban comes to mind pretty lazily. But I’m not trying to do additional work on your behalf right now. I just had a long day and I’m done working for now.
return2ozma was banned because he was posting a nonstop flood of articles, and admitted to the mods that he basically just searched out bad stories about Biden and posted them whatever they were (even some ones he didn’t try to defend any kind of factual accuracy of), to bring “balance.”
I actually don’t agree with making that the criterion. I think it’s of a piece with lots of types of lazy and unproductive moderation that happpens on lemmy.world. But, I definitely agreed with banning him, for the same reason that I would expect to be banned if I went to your favorite community and posted 15 stories a day about “Five things you won’t believe about what Biden accomplished during his term in office!” It’s not about the viewpoint being prohibited from anyone expressing it (and, of course, the fact that we’re having this conversation and you haven’t been banned for expressing criticism of the Democrats is an obvious counterexample to you trying to say that’s banned on LW). It’s about one person spamming to try to promote it.
You said anyone could do it, you said it was super easy, just from memory. We’d be having a different conversation if you’d said “Anyone who felt like taking a bunch of time away from their job could probably put together a script to comb through the whole database to find the single example you’re looking for, because I’m sure at least one exists, although I can’t do that whole endeavor right now I’m confident that it would work if someone did do it. I’m very tired and such a thing would be horrifying and unfair if someone asked me to do it. I just know some other person who had a lot of energy to spare could.”
I mean this isn’t really a conversation. this has been me asking as gracefully as I can to step away from the conversation and come back to it another time, and you insisting on continuing.
I think it’s a pretty normal thing for one person to say “Anyone who tried to criticize Democrats gets banned” and one person to say “When did that happen?” It’s not like I am hounding you to do my math homework. It was only in your mind that it blew up into a “task” for you to come up with an example.
Like I say, this is why I don’t really go to lemmy.world. The rules are different. People make proclamations about how it is, and then get all bent out of shape if someone expresses skepticism, like it’s a horrible unreasonable thing.
Feel free to take as much time as you need. I understand that finding examples of what you’re talking about might be challenging. I support you in the mission.
(Edit: Oh, also, we’re not on a phone call. Stepping away from Lemmy instead of replying to me, if you don’t have a reply yet, is sort of implied in the asynchronous nature of the thing.)
(back at work and on a real key board now so I can do longer formed responses)
But this is also why we need the tools I’m building. What I’m talking about can only really be “witnessed”, outside of anectdata, in the aggregate. If you wanted to help, I’m need to find specific instances of this happening and the Ozma one is low hanging fruit because the mod who did the ban said in precise language that it was being done in an effort to control the narrative (regardless of if you agree with the editorial bias or not, I think we take jordan at their word). Agreeing with the political bias of the ban, doesn’t mean it wasn’t an example of an authority (a mod) using that authority to structure the political narratives of the commons, which is what I’m trying to identify.
Specifically, there are a few mods who regularly were getting into flaming arguments which would result in them banning the counter party. flyingsquid was notorious for this, and its a task I need to do to validate a system for automatically identifying its occurrence. I need a couple real examples, so if you find any, send them my way. Some other good subs to look for are c/world and c/political_memes. Squid would regularly flame people then ban them.
And as far as “endless stream”; thanks, because that gave me another task to put on the to do list. What Ozma got banned for isn’t actually what I’m really looking for (although it could be, but its beyond my original scope). What I’m really looking for are bans related to things that happen in the comments. But it would be important to getting a complete picture to also look at someones posts and maybe try and look at how that impacts narratives. That’s a much more difficult process though, but I’m sure in review we’d get asked why we didn’t do that.