Madeline: I haven’t encountered any (that I know of), so cannot answer this question.
Madeline: Though I would be quite interested in what ANYONE would stand to gain from lying about the shape of the world. I’d really want to dissect those motives.
Madeline: Fundamentally, I think it’s fictitious.
Madeline: Point.
Digital Rights Management. AKA the stuff that’s supposed to prevent unauthorized copying and suchlike, but in practice just means the pirates have a better experience than legit customers.
Just: Honestly, we figure Twitter will keep staggering along until its servers implode.
Pearl: We literally live in the same brain as each other. We physically cannot separate, so we figured it made sense to just treat all accounts as collective.
Cougar: I’m just indicating who’s talking; I share the account with the twelve other people rattling around in this noggin, so disambiguating makes sense.
Pearl: And our concern isn’t someone spamming the bot, our concern is someone outsmarting it. For example, figuring out the list of “tripwires” for a given server and baiting otherwise innocent posters into getting bonked.
Cougar: It just seems way too easy to game by malicious actors, from our perspective.
Cougar: It’s not that? It’s just that a dumb automaton making judgement calls about moderation rings all sorts of alarm bells for us.
Cougar: Being honest, we really don’t trust auto-mods.
Luci: We’re going to get a non-plural family member to sit for a few minutes with the EEG on them to get a comparison.