I first thought about them ~8 months ago, simply because we spend ~20 minutes a day reviewing content from new or downvoted users, and it’s a combination of “adds up to a lot of time” and “also kind of emotionally exhausting to think about exactly where the line is where we should take some kind of action.”
The idea of auto-rate-limits felt a lot more salient during the April spike, where a lot of people showed up due to the Eliezer TIME article and other “AI in the news” things. That has since calmed down, but I think we’ll get more things like that in the future and it seemed good to be ahead of it (and meanwhile the base-level background costs of “figure out when/how to intervene on users posting a lot of mediocre content” still felt sufficient to justify it IMO)
I first thought about them ~8 months ago, simply because we spend ~20 minutes a day reviewing content from new or downvoted users, and it’s a combination of “adds up to a lot of time” and “also kind of emotionally exhausting to think about exactly where the line is where we should take some kind of action.”
The idea of auto-rate-limits felt a lot more salient during the April spike, where a lot of people showed up due to the Eliezer TIME article and other “AI in the news” things. That has since calmed down, but I think we’ll get more things like that in the future and it seemed good to be ahead of it (and meanwhile the base-level background costs of “figure out when/how to intervene on users posting a lot of mediocre content” still felt sufficient to justify it IMO)
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