{
  "id": 156570,
  "title": "This competition is anti-free speech.",
  "url": "/competitions/jigsaw-multilingual-toxic-comment-classification/discussion/156570",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2020-06-06T17:58:20.562341400Z",
  "votes": -4,
  "comment_count": 4,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>This is a competition to detect any dissenting voices.</p>\n\n<p>This is a bad competition.</p>\n\n<p>If you hate free speech too. Please downvote this message and stifle my opinion.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "876475",
      "postDate": "06/06/2020 17:58:20",
      "content": "<p>This is a competition to detect any dissenting voices.</p>\n\n<p>This is a bad competition.</p>\n\n<p>If you hate free speech too. Please downvote this message and stifle my opinion.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "This is a competition to detect any dissenting voices.\n\nThis is a bad competition.\n\nIf you hate free speech too. Please downvote this message and stifle my opinion.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "877034",
      "postDate": "06/07/2020 09:07:34",
      "content": "<p>My best model predicts 0.038 toxicity for your text above 😏 </p>\n\n<p>The comp is about the toxic and abusive language, not about the contents of your message, your thoughts or beliefs...\nNobody needs to be offensive to prove their point, indeed as you may know, the opposite tends to work much better.</p>\n\n<p>peace and love, bro!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "My best model predicts 0.038 toxicity for your text above 😏 \n\nThe comp is about the toxic and abusive language, not about the contents of your message, your thoughts or beliefs...\nNobody needs to be offensive to prove their point, indeed as you may know, the opposite tends to work much better.\n\npeace and love, bro!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "877042",
      "postDate": "06/07/2020 09:21:52",
      "content": "<p>The competition specifically says:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Identify toxicity in online conversations, where toxicity is defined as anything rude, disrespectful or otherwise likely to make someone leave a discussion.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>It doesn't say anything about freedom of speech. It would be really helpful if you can back your comments with some examples from the training data provided. May be point out some data points where you feel that the toxic variable value is high when someone is freely sharing their ideas without using rude and disrespectful language. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The competition specifically says:\n&gt; Identify toxicity in online conversations, where toxicity is defined as anything rude, disrespectful or otherwise likely to make someone leave a discussion.\n\nIt doesn't say anything about freedom of speech. It would be really helpful if you can back your comments with some examples from the training data provided. May be point out some data points where you feel that the toxic variable value is high when someone is freely sharing their ideas without using rude and disrespectful language.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "886425",
      "postDate": "06/15/2020 03:20:37",
      "content": "<p>\"make someone leave a discussion\" Exactly. So if someone says, \"I like eating bacon sandwiched\", and all the vegans leave the discussion. Or someone says \"a woman is a female person\" and all the intersectionalists leave the discussion because of offence. </p>\n\n<p>People can be offended by anything. That's the point.</p>\n\n<p>Humour is about being disrepectful. So this competition will stifle humorous comments.</p>\n\n<p>We can't all live in safe spaces!!</p>\n\n<p>It feels like Big Brother to me!</p>\n\n<p>Freedom!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "\"make someone leave a discussion\" Exactly. So if someone says, \"I like eating bacon sandwiched\", and all the vegans leave the discussion. Or someone says \"a woman is a female person\" and all the intersectionalists leave the discussion because of offence. \n\nPeople can be offended by anything. That's the point.\n\nHumour is about being disrepectful. So this competition will stifle humorous comments.\n\nWe can't all live in safe spaces!!\n\nIt feels like Big Brother to me!\n\nFreedom!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "888442",
      "postDate": "06/16/2020 11:06:07",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"/aidetective\">@aidetective</a> Please have a look at the data/validation\nThere are some really useless rude and violent comments that definitely don't belong in Wikipedia</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "aidetective Please have a look at the data/validation\nThere are some really useless rude and violent comments that definitely don't belong in Wikipedia",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 877034,
      "author_name": "hmendonca",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/07/2020 09:07:34",
      "content": "<p>My best model predicts 0.038 toxicity for your text above 😏 </p>\n\n<p>The comp is about the toxic and abusive language, not about the contents of your message, your thoughts or beliefs...\nNobody needs to be offensive to prove their point, indeed as you may know, the opposite tends to work much better.</p>\n\n<p>peace and love, bro!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 877042,
      "author_name": "manikanthr5",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/07/2020 09:21:52",
      "content": "<p>The competition specifically says:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Identify toxicity in online conversations, where toxicity is defined as anything rude, disrespectful or otherwise likely to make someone leave a discussion.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>It doesn't say anything about freedom of speech. It would be really helpful if you can back your comments with some examples from the training data provided. May be point out some data points where you feel that the toxic variable value is high when someone is freely sharing their ideas without using rude and disrespectful language. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 886425,
          "author_name": "aidetective",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/15/2020 03:20:37",
          "content": "<p>\"make someone leave a discussion\" Exactly. So if someone says, \"I like eating bacon sandwiched\", and all the vegans leave the discussion. Or someone says \"a woman is a female person\" and all the intersectionalists leave the discussion because of offence. </p>\n\n<p>People can be offended by anything. That's the point.</p>\n\n<p>Humour is about being disrepectful. So this competition will stifle humorous comments.</p>\n\n<p>We can't all live in safe spaces!!</p>\n\n<p>It feels like Big Brother to me!</p>\n\n<p>Freedom!</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 888442,
          "author_name": "hmendonca",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/16/2020 11:06:07",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"/aidetective\">@aidetective</a> Please have a look at the data/validation\nThere are some really useless rude and violent comments that definitely don't belong in Wikipedia</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "876475": "This is a competition to detect any dissenting voices.\n\nThis is a bad competition.\n\nIf you hate free speech too. Please downvote this message and stifle my opinion.",
    "877034": "My best model predicts 0.038 toxicity for your text above 😏 \n\nThe comp is about the toxic and abusive language, not about the contents of your message, your thoughts or beliefs...\nNobody needs to be offensive to prove their point, indeed as you may know, the opposite tends to work much better.\n\npeace and love, bro!",
    "877042": "The competition specifically says:\n&gt; Identify toxicity in online conversations, where toxicity is defined as anything rude, disrespectful or otherwise likely to make someone leave a discussion.\n\nIt doesn't say anything about freedom of speech. It would be really helpful if you can back your comments with some examples from the training data provided. May be point out some data points where you feel that the toxic variable value is high when someone is freely sharing their ideas without using rude and disrespectful language.",
    "886425": "\"make someone leave a discussion\" Exactly. So if someone says, \"I like eating bacon sandwiched\", and all the vegans leave the discussion. Or someone says \"a woman is a female person\" and all the intersectionalists leave the discussion because of offence. \n\nPeople can be offended by anything. That's the point.\n\nHumour is about being disrepectful. So this competition will stifle humorous comments.\n\nWe can't all live in safe spaces!!\n\nIt feels like Big Brother to me!\n\nFreedom!",
    "888442": "aidetective Please have a look at the data/validation\nThere are some really useless rude and violent comments that definitely don't belong in Wikipedia"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}