On: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

[EForEndeavour]

To even have a snowball's chance at success, they would have had to make use of reddit's voting system. Tons of toxicity and disinformation still makes it up into highly upvoted comments, but I'd expect throwing away heavily downvoted comments to exclude a good fraction of the utter crap.

[luckydata → EForEndeavour]

downvotes are not necessarily indicative of bad ideas or comment but more about alignment to each specific sub-reddit groupthink.

[keanebean86 → luckydata]

I was thinking of a possible way to improve the downvote issue. Make users either comment or upvote an existing child comment to downvote.

I'm sure you'll get tons of "u suk" comments but there's just as many who won't even bother since they need to do two things now.

[bsamuels → EForEndeavour]

They probably run a sentiment analysis on the content before feeding it in so they can filter out the ugly highly upvoted content.