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1. Laurelai Bailey (laurelai@mastodon.starrevolution.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Jun-2018 22:11:02 UTC Laurelai Bailey

   if you have federation wide trending tags you create incentives for people to game that system to force a tag into trending status, it can and it will happen, which will cause whatever posts they are gaming to gain visibility. Its a way to spread propaganda, lies, illegal content and other malicious postings.

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   • Sylvhem (sylvhem@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 01-Jun-2018 22:19:02 UTC Sylvhem

     in reply to

     @Laurelai That's even worst than that. Since they can't be deleted from the trending, unlike Twitter, you can use them as an harassment engine and nobody could do anything.

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   • gourgou (gourgou@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 01-Jun-2018 23:22:51 UTC gourgou

     in reply to

     @Laurelai I already saw that happen (far from my home TL but whatever), on the "for the fun" side.

     Laurelai Bailey repeated this.