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Facebrowser - Change how boosted posts are regulated


Mitch

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It's no surprise or shock to people that FB is so loosely moderated it's actually garbage to even use but there's been a lot of discussion around boosted posts / promoted posts it warrants an actual proper discussion about it, while I really don't care for them, other people do care and it's time to discuss it. 

 

Posts are still being boosted from months ago and it's coming from users that have long left the platform or aren't even using that character anymore, while people say take it up IC with the web developers, there's no web developers IC nor are there any public moderators to provide feedback to.

 

So can we talk into how boosted posts are handled thanks

 

My proposed changes

You cannot boost a post thats older than two weeks

Must be related to a business / job postings / events

Enhance moderation on the platform or even hire actual moderators IC

 

Note:

I'm kinda fine with the illegal bits as it opens up some RP opportunities with LSPD to crackdown on it. 

thx to @nateX for helping with ideas and changes

 

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My problems with Facebrowser consist of:
1) 1 or 2-month-old posts popping up, which is tolerable yet annoying.

2) Such things as child pornography, guns, and drugs being openly ICly sold with no repercussions due to the lack of moderation on Facebrowser.

 

Now in the world that we all live in, a city like this would have been immediately taken down or been hosted on the dark web in the first place, yet here we are roleplaying a realistic world where on a public social media we have people selling drugs and nothing is done about it.

 

My suggestion that I believe would improve Facebrowser for the better:

1) IC collaboration between LSPD and Facebrowser if possible.

2) More moderation on Facebrowser to prevent IC illegal activity from popping up and disturbing things such as child pornography being sold to people through PMs and posts.

 

TL;DR: Facebrowser requires more moderation to add realism to the website. It's a small change but it will help a lot.

 

Perfect example of what is being openly posted on Facebrowser below:
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Yeah, from what I understand the illegal stuff is handled by the LSPD ? 

But seeing the same selfie that's 10 days old, every time you log on... It's kind of annoying after a while. Nothing majorly aggravating, but it's a bit like "ugh, this thing again? x_x". I even had to block a few people who used boosted posts because their old boosted selfie kept appearing all the time, and it was the only way for me to stop seeing it. 

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6 hours ago, Vash Baldeus said:

Definitely posts from months ago or weeks ago should not be even boosted, at all.

I have a manual script I run to remove all boosts that are more than 3 days old and I do it every week or so when I think about it. But I would need to automatize it a bit more.

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I used to see boosted posts at least 2 weeks old and sometimes 2 months old. That part is very annoying.

 

Aside from the posts that are left boosted for far too long, the use of it shouldn’t be that much of a problem.

People on sites like FB and Instagram pay to have their content suggested to more people, though the sites are a lot more sneaky about fitting it into your regular news feed & “new content” pages.

Those posts don’t have to be strictly promotional/business related content either because everyone tries to be a model on real social media and getting more views allows sponsorships and things like that. We have the same thing happening in character on FB and that seems like a realistic issue. 

 

Also the criminal stuff does get handled by PD. It just looks like it doesn’t. Real dealers advertise the drugs they sell on social media & apps like snapchat so again, more realism, even if it bothers you. 

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On 10/3/2019 at 6:17 PM, Havana said:

Those posts don’t have to be strictly promotional/business related content either because everyone tries to be a model on real social media and getting more views allows sponsorships and things like that. We have the same thing happening in character on FB and that seems like a realistic issue.

I disagree. I've never seen a promoted selfie on Facebook, only shared ones. Instagram is a different site entirely. I'd be much more preferential to having a more Instagram site, or even a separate 'section' of Facebrowser where people can take their underwear selfies and other garbage. It's a hassle to have to keep blocking people across more than one character's accounts to not deal with this. Make boosted posts event/business/job postings only, please. I want to use social media but the state of FB is pushing me away.

 

Also +1 to automating cleaning old boost posts. Weekly is probably fine.

 

Facebrowser used to be an in-game 'faction' I recall. I'd personally be interested in working for some sort of support team, to try to keep things under wraps and off the actual staff's plates.

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