Increased moderator input?

[Frank100]

Hi,

I've tended to have about one in every thirty posts moderated before it was posted to the forums but over the last two to three weeks it has been about two in every three. Is there generally more moderator input before posts are put on the forums? I can't imagine I have been identified as a troublemaker!

Frank100

 

[Rakk]

I've tended to have about one in every thirty posts moderated before it was posted to the forums but over the last two to three weeks it has been about two in every three. Is there generally more moderator input before posts are put on the forums? I can't imagine I have been identified as a troublemaker!

Unfortunately sometimes the auto-moderation thing seems to pick on a useful forum member with many posts and keeps shoving them in the moderation queue - your guess is as good as mine as to why it does it though .....

We do try and approve said posts as soon as we notice, but at least for me I don't tend to check every post especially from well-known members cos they shouldn't generally be being moderated anyways, though over the few weeks I have noticed quite a few of your posts have ended up in the mod queue, will try to remember to check more often

 

[Tony1044]

"...I can't imagine I have been identified as a troublemaker!..."

Frank100

You troublemaker, you!!! ;-)

 

[ubuysa]

Have you been including lots of external links recently? AFAIK that seems to cause auto-moderation. Like Rakk the first thing I check when I'm online is PCS and I do take moderating these fora seriously, but summer is just around the corner on Crete and so I'm not indoors quite as much as I am in the winter.

 

[Stephen M]

I agree with Ubuysa, on the few occasions in the past when I have used more than one link the post has gone to moderation. Enjoy the Summer, I guess it must be getting quite hot in Crete, it is even warm in Scotland at the moment and that is not always the case up here

 

[Oussebon]

I've found the filter more prone to objecting to links with no www. in them, and links ending in things like .info. It used to snaffle any post with a link to PCmonitors.info that I made. But it seems to have stopped doing so; the last couple I did got through fine. That said, I'd actually saved a text file with tinyurl versions of the PCmonitors links I posted most often as I felt bad nagging Rakk to release my posts. The filter seemed entirely zen about tinyurl.

I can't help but feel like the spam filter has gone a bit strange - perhaps traumatised by the things it's seen and experienced like the guy in the Deer Hunter, and now just plays Russian roulette with our posts.

 

[ubuysa]

I can't help but feel like the spam filter has gone a bit strange - perhaps traumatised by the things it's seen and experienced like the guy in the Deer Hunter, and now just plays Russian roulette with our posts.

Perhaps it's become self-aware like SkyNet in the Terminator movies? Now that would be a worry.............

 

[Oussebon]

In three months, PC Specialist will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with PC Specialist computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record with only a £5 warranty upgrade. The Liquid Series Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online August 4th, 2017. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Keynes' new PC begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

#nofate

 

[Frank100]

Hi,

It's a bit of a mystery as I don't tend to post links very often. Oh well.

Frank100

 

[ubuysa]

In three months, PC Specialist will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with PC Specialist computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record with only a £5 warranty upgrade. The Liquid Series Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online August 4th, 2017. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Keynes' new PC begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

[rollinglaugh]

 

[Frank100]

Hi,

Of course it's never been a better time for the machines to take over. Between Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook they already know everything about us, our wants, desires, preferences, even our limits. They have clever algorithms making sense of all of our search terms, our destinations, our posts on social media, even examining our spelling, grammar and so forth. It would be so easy to 'knock' us off!

Just waiting to see if SkyNet decides to put this post in the moderation queue.

Frank100 - Or am I?

 

[Tony1044]

Hmm I was listening to a podcast last year (the year before, maybe, I don't really remember).

It was one of the Google engineers/scientists that is responsible for the image search algorithms.

He was talking about how, for reasons completely unknown to the humans, the Google Imaging algorithms had started to categorise paper shredders in images. Actually going out, looking for them.

He also went on to say when they ran samples those same images by humans, they could correctly identify a shredder roughly 75% of the time (or there abouts) whereas the algorithms got it right around 95%+

And they had no idea why.

 

[Oussebon]

It sounds like the algorithms need to get out more.

 

[Frank100]

Hi,

The idea is in the future you can take a picture of almost any thing/place and Google will tell you what it is/where it is. Google would of course then know you are interested in that thing/place and store that along with everything else it knows about you. Google and others want to know what you want before you know you want it.

Taking the clever algorithm further did you know there are keyboard biometrics? Companies produce software that analyses the millisecond gaps between keystrokes and can determine with a very high degree of accuracy things like age and gender. One use is if I typed in "vacuum cleaners" on a site like Argos, they would show me blue/black/silver ones, with high powered motors. If my wife typed the same thing in on their website, it would show her silver/pink models that have clever features or can store more conveniently. This all sounds rather sexist but many sites are already using these sorts of tools to determine which products/services we are most likely to want.

Analytics cookies also determines how long we typically spend on a site before we make a purchase and what sorts of offers/ads we click on. These things combined means companies know they have a limited amount of time to show us the product we are most likely to buy. Hence the keyboard biometrics, which will only get cleverer the more sample data they have.

It's an interesting world we live/exist in. At least until the machines decide to take over.

Frank100

 

[ubuysa]

This reminds me of a Horizon TV program from the 1980's which was all about 'machine intelligence'. One of the questions they asked of the 'experts' of the time was 'if computers start running things for us will we be able to control what they're doing?'. Remember this was 1980 and not 2017, so the answer is even more scary now....

The 'expert' said; 'imagine two computers communicating with each other (at 1980's speeds remember) we'll call one Bill and the other Fred. If you walked up to Bill, tapped lightly on his case and said " Bill, what are you talking to Fred about?" you have to understand that in the time between you tapping on his case and finishing asking your question Bill has said more words to Fred than all the people in the world have said to each other in the same time. So what is Bill going to tell you? Because you're not going to live long enough to listen to the answer'.

 

[Tony1044]

This reminds me of a Horizon TV program from the 1980's which was all about 'machine intelligence'. One of the questions they asked of the 'experts' of the time was 'if computers start running things for us will we be able to control what they're doing?'. Remember this was 1980 and not 2017, so the answer is even more scary now....

The 'expert' said; 'imagine two computers communicating with each other (at 1980's speeds remember) we'll call one Bill and the other Fred. If you walked up to Bill, tapped lightly on his case and said " Bill, what are you talking to Fred about?" you have to understand that in the time between you tapping on his case and finishing asking your question Bill has said more words to Fred than all the people in the world have said to each other in the same time. So what is Bill going to tell you? Because you're not going to live long enough to listen to the answer'.

Reminds me of a radio programme - they were talking about high speed trading systems. Slowed down something like 100,000 times, the data was about a half second squeek!

 

[Oussebon]

This is the spam filter right now:


"Another one of Oussebon's posts? Ohh.. I couldn't possibly..."

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