I believe the high-profile names at the top are individually verified, at least, and it looks like there’s someone behind the form deleting fake entries as they’re noticed. (Eg Yann LeCun was on the list briefly, but has since been deleted from the list.)
When we did Scott’s petition, names were not automatically added to the list, but each name was read by me-or-Jacob, and if we were uncertain about one we didn’t add it without checking in with others or thinking it over. This meant that added names were staggered throughout the day because we only checked every hour or two, but overall prevented a number of fake names from getting on there.
(I write this to contrast it with automatically adding names then removing them as you notice issues.)
I believe the high-profile names at the top are individually verified, at least, and it looks like there’s someone behind the form deleting fake entries as they’re noticed. (Eg Yann LeCun was on the list briefly, but has since been deleted from the list.)
When we did Scott’s petition, names were not automatically added to the list, but each name was read by me-or-Jacob, and if we were uncertain about one we didn’t add it without checking in with others or thinking it over. This meant that added names were staggered throughout the day because we only checked every hour or two, but overall prevented a number of fake names from getting on there.
(I write this to contrast it with automatically adding names then removing them as you notice issues.)
Lecun heard he was incorrectly added to the list, so the reputational damage still mostly occurred.
Yeah this seems a bit of a self-defeating exercise.
Who made the decision to go ahead with this method of collecting signatories?
They didn’t even have a verification hold on submitted names...