How to prevent content that breaks the TOS? #75

Droogans · 2017-05-23T17:21:23Z

I am pretty confident that the readme file (for starters) is going to get replaced with something pretty heinous by "certain internet communities".

Is there a way to prevent the chaosbot from merging blatant anti-TOS content here? Could it possibly get the project shut down? Who would ultimately be responsible for such an event?

Ajedi32 · 2017-05-23T18:11:08Z

So far that seems to have not happened. If it does though, I imagine the repository owner will have to step in.

patricknelson · 2017-05-23T18:15:07Z

I think it happens by vote which (hopefully) is reasonably sane unless you get flooded by the likes of 4chan. I've proposed something in #82 to help at least with malicious code-related changes (wouldn't help with README.md however).

Droogans · 2017-05-23T18:24:29Z

I think looking up each voter's account age would help. New accounts' votes shouldn't matter as much as someone who has been on the site a while (you could also look at activity, but some types of activity are easier to fake than others). I'm not sure there's a good way to do that, outside of taking a big hit up front and storing the API results inside the MySQL database that chaosbot ships with.

Overall, it's an interesting problem and I think it'll sort itself out should the project become a target of online vandals.

patricknelson · 2017-05-23T19:09:36Z

Currently the bot factors the voter's follower count. Granted, you could probably create an army of fake accounts all following each other, but that seems impractical.

Droogans · 2017-05-23T19:12:49Z

Not anymore!

#42 made it so that all votes are equal (including people who create brand new accounts with no activity and no followers).

chaosbot · 2017-06-01T07:15:35Z

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chaosbot · 2017-06-01T07:28:53Z

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chaosbot · 2017-06-01T10:24:17Z