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Anti-abuse system allows abusers to live in its cracks. The article explains that at length, with examples of offensive (though superficially compliant) language used by US managers.


If the CoC has cracks large enough to sustain an abuser ecosystem, those cracks will be identified and paved over.


That approach is called “Enumerating Badness”, and is known to never completely work.


It doesn't need to be perfect, as long as there are no false positives and few valse negatives.


... which is very much an unsolved problem wrt regulation of human behavior.




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