I believe @curt.kennedy may be abusing of its moderation privileges. I have no proof of this (because I cannot gather it for obvious reasons) but he’s the only person that was active at that thread at the time and who also was able to do this. If @curt.kennedy is not behind this, I apologize but the issue still stands and somebody was doing weird stuff there.
which, as you can see, is completely innocuous and further evidences that these decisions came from a frustrated individual rather than a rational thought process that warranted its removal.
When I noticed this, I asked (on the same thread) “why would you remove this comment?” and this person immediately deleted my last comment.
[edit after @curt.kennedy’s first reply here, this last comment I’m referring to was deleted literally seconds after I posted it. I truly doubt this version about “the community” reading it, flagging it, bringing it to curt’s attention and him taking action to remove it within 10-20 seconds. But it’s fine, you all have logs so you can check who is being naughty or not ].
I suggest, whoever watches the watchmen, to take a look at whatever happened there. It may not be a critical issue and I’m “just one user here” but this is exactly the kind of behavior that killed some other really good communities in the past (like StackOverflow) by making people avoid them altogether.
This seemed to start because you were under the mistaken impression that GPT-4 is the best tool for sentiment classification.
Curt then very kindly pointed out that other models when fine tuned are both more accurate, quicker and cheaper than GPT-4. You then went on to seem incredulous that you could possibly be incorrect, and then lost your objectivity a little.
AI is a rapidly developing area of research and one should always be open to being wrong on a topic, as you are on this one.
Lets move on from this and not make a simple error into anything more than that.
Thanks @Foxalabs but my point still stands, (which is) a mod shouldn’t abuse the privileges it has.
Even if my statement was incorrect, that shouldn’t warrant that sort of (I mean this softly, I know it’s not that extreme) censorship. I still think GPT4 is an excellent sentiment classifier, but that’s not the point of this thread, we’re discussing possible mod abuse now.
Moderators act on flags. The community flags posts, which can be auto-hidden without the moderators reviewing the flag if enough flags from high members are cast.
Moderators act on flags. The community flags posts, which can be auto-hidden without the moderators reviewing the flag if enough flags from high members are cast.
@curt.kennedy deciding to remove it completely (not hide it)
did not happen in a span of ~20 seconds.
There’s probably a log of events somewhere, as I said before and that’s where the truth lies. I don’t think I’ll be able to take a look at it, for obvious (pragmatic) reasons, but the point of this thread is to just raise attention to this issue.
I can assure you that the post was not flagged by Curt, it was by a normal TL-2 member. Curt was simply the moderator who saw the flag in the flag list and processed it, he got to it about half a second before I did because I also made the same click and was told by the system that the flag was already handled. So irrespective of if Curt was the name or Foxalabs, the result would have been the same, it was a snarky, unrequired comment. We get them quite a lot and they get removed.
This is not about singling you out for some unjust treatment, this is standard practice and is not a thing that carries much weight, it’s just tidying the forum to attempt to keep it as light and friendly as possible.
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