I’m curious if these rate limits were introduced as a consequence of some recent developments. Has the website been having more problems with spam and low-quality content lately, or has the marginal benefit of making these changes gone up in some other way?
It could also be that you had this idea only recently and in retrospect it had been a good idea for a long time, of course.
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’m curious if these rate limits were introduced as a consequence of some recent developments. Has the website been having more problems with spam and low-quality content lately, or has the marginal benefit of making these changes gone up in some other way?
It could also be that you had this idea only recently and in retrospect it had been a good idea for a long time, of course.
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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