At least the mods here actually remove it fairly quick
Ban twitter.
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Is anyone surprised with this finding? The sub is as bad and the usuals will be on here, blinkered by the abuse that the side of their preferred party dish out and will inevitably claim “but what about….”.
A result of all of this is that all it will do is convince any reasonable person to stay the hell away from politics.
Politician or not, noone deserves to be threatened like that
.It’s ultimately on twitter to sort this out but the platform has been a toxic place for as long as it’s been around. They’d have done something more to moderate comments if they wanted to, but it’s clear that they couldn’t give a shite.
> Supporters of Sinn Féin and Fine Gael post the most abusive messages toward politicians on Twitter, according to new research.
Surprise, surprise. The same pattern can be seen on here.
“The research, which reviewed tweets posted between September 2020 and September last year, found abusive comments about TDs increased significantly around political controversies.
This included the row over the Mother and Baby Homes report, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar’s leaking of a confidential GP contract and the debate over pay for student nurses.”
I know it mentions he used Google anti abuse software but for the above ones personally I thought the majority of tweets seemed to be more legitimate criticisms rather than abuse.
Nobody should get abused but a lot of politicians (and certain journalists) like to claim any form of mild criticism online is abuse.
“This included the row over the Mother and Baby Homes report, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar’s leaking of a confidential GP contract and the debate over pay for student nurses.”
Everybody should rightly be giving out about these things. I have no sympathy for them, at all.
I don’t really care.
Would setting a minimum abuse target help in this situation or not?
this whole thing is based on an algorithm giving text a percentage score on how threatening it is. i was curious so i tested it on “you’re dead wrong on this one” and it gave it 80% (well above the 50% threshold used in this guy’s research to consider something a threat)
bit of a contrived example – i’m sure it’s usually right – but something to bear in mind perhaps
I never understand why politicians stay on twitter. Between them often making fools of themselves and receiving abuse surely the best thing is to stay as far away from it as possible.
Don’t have much sympathy for Hazel Chu. She posts very stupid and controversial shit that attracts bad responses. She jumped on that Carlow teacher story and publicly insinuated the teachers were perverts when it was all bullshit.
Ah I was wondering when chu was going jump on a bandwagon
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You get the same shite on here
At least the mods here actually remove it fairly quick
Ban twitter.
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Is anyone surprised with this finding? The sub is as bad and the usuals will be on here, blinkered by the abuse that the side of their preferred party dish out and will inevitably claim “but what about….”.
A result of all of this is that all it will do is convince any reasonable person to stay the hell away from politics.
Politician or not, noone deserves to be threatened like that
.It’s ultimately on twitter to sort this out but the platform has been a toxic place for as long as it’s been around. They’d have done something more to moderate comments if they wanted to, but it’s clear that they couldn’t give a shite.
> Supporters of Sinn Féin and Fine Gael post the most abusive messages toward politicians on Twitter, according to new research.
Surprise, surprise. The same pattern can be seen on here.
“The research, which reviewed tweets posted between September 2020 and September last year, found abusive comments about TDs increased significantly around political controversies.
This included the row over the Mother and Baby Homes report, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar’s leaking of a confidential GP contract and the debate over pay for student nurses.”
I know it mentions he used Google anti abuse software but for the above ones personally I thought the majority of tweets seemed to be more legitimate criticisms rather than abuse.
Nobody should get abused but a lot of politicians (and certain journalists) like to claim any form of mild criticism online is abuse.
“This included the row over the Mother and Baby Homes report, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar’s leaking of a confidential GP contract and the debate over pay for student nurses.”
Everybody should rightly be giving out about these things. I have no sympathy for them, at all.
I don’t really care.
Would setting a minimum abuse target help in this situation or not?
this whole thing is based on an algorithm giving text a percentage score on how threatening it is. i was curious so i tested it on “you’re dead wrong on this one” and it gave it 80% (well above the 50% threshold used in this guy’s research to consider something a threat)
bit of a contrived example – i’m sure it’s usually right – but something to bear in mind perhaps
I never understand why politicians stay on twitter. Between them often making fools of themselves and receiving abuse surely the best thing is to stay as far away from it as possible.
Don’t have much sympathy for Hazel Chu. She posts very stupid and controversial shit that attracts bad responses. She jumped on that Carlow teacher story and publicly insinuated the teachers were perverts when it was all bullshit.
Ah I was wondering when chu was going jump on a bandwagon