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Catfishing on an Industrial Scale

5 pointsby nwjabout 2 years ago

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082349872349872about 2 years ago
Assuming the 120 seconds is accurate, I wonder what factors make that the sweet spot? Short enough to average over alts, but long enough to have some convincing short-range correlation in the convos?<p>(francophones may be interested in the following story from the minitel days, before queue-based averaging of the « animatrices » : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.wikiwix.com&#x2F;cache&#x2F;index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fowni.fr%2F2012%2F06%2F28%2Fjai-ete-animatrice-de-minitel-rose%2F#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&amp;tab=url" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.wikiwix.com&#x2F;cache&#x2F;index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%...</a> )