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My wife says, ‘I don’t think anyone has as many types of spices, spice packs, hot sauces, types of noodles, and flours, and rice, like we do..’Do you refrigerate any of the sauces and pastes after opening? Since I use up mine relatively slowly, I do refrigerate the oyster sauce, chili oil with fermented beans, and spicy bean paste. Wondering if that's necessary or if I'm killing flavors by refrigerating.
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Was talking to someone about #BlueSky the other day, and how they apparently used some sort of #AI for #moderation.Yeah, that's why I'd look at doing layers of regexp rules mapped to users' risk profiles, both for apparent quality of their account and topical marking (binning, if you like) for dubious past posts. Say something borderline transphobic, guess what, you didn't get modded because you stayed just under the line, but are now getting the transphobia flagging regexps applied to your future posts. etc, etc for other categories of behavior needing mod intervention. Way more powerful and tuneable than trying to come up with perfect LLM prompts. More power efficient, too.
Another thought: it would be wonderful if one could save the mods some schlep-work by backfeeding the user's past N posts though the regexp heuristics. Saves one having to manually poke through their history.
Another ad hoc rule: High % of a user's replies (above some threshold count) have been to a single user who is not responding positively. Defeats 1-2 post/week sealioning where no one post is objectionable.
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Was talking to someone about #BlueSky the other day, and how they apparently used some sort of #AI for #moderation.Smells a bit like a solution in search of a problem, and could readily end up with an enshittified feed of flagging, analogous to what google did to what previously was a good search product. Why not do tiered heuristics instead, feeding off keywords or keyphrases, and mapping the application of tiers to past needed moderation of that user, and user characteristics such as recency of signup, follows/follower profile, and quality of followers? For instance, a well-established user who has never needed past moderation would have their posts profiled only against tier 1, a more dubious user might have posts profiled against tiers 1-4 (out of a hypothetical 5). And/or one could silo by topic the application of keyword/phrase groups to users: one might mark a certain user as suspect on racism, or sexism, or transphobia, etc.
One could also add some ad hoc rules, for instance a bloomscrolling type hashtag post that mentions a politician or current event get flagged.