Thx for helping w my spam query. I'd love insights on a reframed version. I'm thinking about products that already use ranking (news feeds, search) and sometimes demote for *product* reasons.
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An easier example is a Googlebomb. When pranksters used SEO tactics to make the White House homepage be the first result for searches on "miserable failure" for example. searchengineland.com/google-kills-b… 2/
The problem isn't that the white house page was bad content or needed to be removed/demoted based on Google's disapproval of its message. It was that it wasn't the most relevant result, so changing ranking to move it down improved product functionality or search quality. 3/
(It doesn't matter for this purpose whether that was a "manual demotion" or an overall algorithmic change to make it less vulnerable to this attack -- though I'm confident it was the latter.) 4/
I think that same response sometimes makes sense for spam, but spam has so many other problems (network load, maybe violating fraud policies on social media, wanting to punish perpetrators, etc.) that it's a complicated example. 5/
Anyhow, I guess the simplest version of my Q is whether other products that use ranking algorithms get the equivalent of SEO or Googlebombing and thus use demotion as part of the product quality toolkit -- separate from content moderation. 6/6
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