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   Mar 11

Use words, not memes

In September of 1993, America Online offered Usenet access for ther first time. Before that time, the only way to access Usenet was at colleges, libraries, and such. Every september, freshmen would swamp usenet and had to become acclimated to the “Netiquite” rules. Those who acclimated stayed on, those who did not left. When AOL offered usenet access, all hell broke loose, and the trolls ran amok. In time, they were kill filed. By the time AOL removed usenet access in 2005, “Sporge” or spam forgeries had made Usenet almost unusable as kill filing could not keep up.

I see modern social media experencing the same problem, magnified by the cumulative effect of Russian trolls teaching and inspiring both sides of an issue against each other. Facebook is filled with N00Bs. And kill filing won’t work. Please join me as I begin to explore this issue, and options to fix it.

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