There should only be 12 jurors (maybe you’ve already done this). People should have to wait in a queue to join a jury of 12. Once you have 12 you all vote within 30 seconds. Everyone should see the results. If a jury is a hung jury, it ends up back in the queue. Majority wins. Users can only appeal once.

Basically it should mimic jury duty a little more closely. Right now, it just feels like you’re doing a survey.

I would have preferred exploding, but I’ll take it.

10-4 🤢

Corn? No. Corn nuts? Absolutely, sign me up.

if (ugly) {
    kill_child(child_name);
} else {
    ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
}

The most generous assumption is that they use statistics to determine correlations like this (e.g., deleted selfies resulted in a high CTR for beauty ads so they made that a part of their algo). The least generous interpretation is exactly what you’re thinking: an asshole came up with it because it’s logical and effective.

Either way, ethics needs to be a bigger part of the programmers education. And we, as a society, need to make algorithms more transparent (at least social media algorithms). Reddit’s trending algorithm used to be open source during the good ole days.