The code is open source. Nothing is obscured. The main objective is to identify trolls and toxic users who won’t bother looking at the code.
It’s not a silver bullet, it’s just supposed to grab the low hanging fruit, but it’s fine for me
The code is open source. Nothing is obscured. The main objective is to identify trolls and toxic users who won’t bother looking at the code.
It’s not a silver bullet, it’s just supposed to grab the low hanging fruit, but it’s fine for me
Zangoose@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
“Security-by-obscurity” is a phrase used for any measure that is useless once you know how it works. In this case it’s hoping that a troll doesn’t know about the specific hardcoded rules. None of the rules in PieFed actually work if you are at all aware of them.
Blaze@piefed.zip 6 hours ago
Yet I still regularly see toxic users being flagged as such, with a 95% accuracy. Either they don’t care or they don’t know enough about the system to bypass it.