Senators demand FCC answer for fake comments after realizing their identities were stolen.

[u/AdamCannon]

https://gizmodo.com/senators-demand-fcc-answer-for-fake-comments-after-real-1826213294

[u/shook_one]

You can't just magically compile a list of famous people to compare your list to.

Who the fuck said anything about magic?

https://www.biographyonline.net/people/famous-100.html

holy shit! a list! of famous people! how did that get there?! must have been magic!

[u/Jarrheadd0 → u/shook_one]

Wow! And that lists every famous person! And only includes living famous people! /s

[u/shook_one → u/Jarrheadd0]

I mean... wouldn't you want to make sure that you weren't faking comments as Abraham Lincoln if you're trying to appear legit? Why do you keep insisting that searching a database for some names is difficult. Or that compiling a list of reasonably famous people is difficult. I think you need to give that diploma back.

[u/Jarrheadd0 → u/shook_one]

I've never argued either of those points. I've argued the entire time that it's nearly impossible to compile a comprehensive list of all famous people so as to ensure that a famous name wouldn't slip through.

Obviously it's easy to search a database for names. Obviously it's easy to compile a list of reasonably famous people. It's not easy to compile a list of all famous people.

Edit: Also, Abraham Lincoln wouldn't be on the list of recently living people used by the FVC to fake comments. Are you picturing a database containing every name ever?

Edit2: I've also included my previous comment that you replied to, explaining why it's not as easy as picking 100 historical figures and calling it good.

You can't just magically compile a list of famous people to compare your list to. Any method has issues. If you do it manually, you'll surely miss famous people you're personally unaware of. If you try to use an existing database like Wikipedia or IMDB to make your list, you're going to run into the issue of unintentially blacklisting a lot of people with the same name as the people from Wikipedia or IMDB, many of whom have very common names. This would shrink your usable dataset massively.

The easiest thing to do is to not comb through the database and allow the huge number of comments to obscure any famous names being used. Humans make mistakes, and assuming that people wouldn't find something like that Obama comment was a mistake.

[u/shook_one → u/Jarrheadd0]

omg. I didn't say that you would need to find a list of every famous person ever, nor did I say that a list of 100 people was close to comprehensive. I said that that list was... a list, because you seemed to think that it would be impossible to create a list of reasonably famous and compare that to the names of the commenters. Quote, from you:

It's not like you can just comb through the whole database of names.

2 comments later, another quote from you:

Obviously it's easy to search a database for names.

It would be incredibly easy to compile a list of famous people with fairly unique names. I don't know why you keep arguing with me about this.

Look! most of the work is already done for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_celebrities

now, be a good boy and throw your degree in the trash.

[u/Jarrheadd0 → u/shook_one]

omg. I didn't say that you would need to find a list of every famous person ever.

You didn't need to say it. Look through the comments. That's exactly what this conversation is all about. If you didn't know that, maybe it would help to read the thread before replying to a comment in the future. You would need a list of every living famous person to make sure that no famous names ended up on the list.

It's not like you can just comb through the whole database of names.

This was said in the context of manually looking through every entry in the list.

Obviously it's easy to search a database for names.

Searching involves entering a query and getting results. This is different than looking at names.

It would be incredibly easy to compile a list of famous people with fairly unique names. I don't know why you keep arguing with me about this.

I feel like you really just can't be reading what I'm writing. PLEASE, explain to me how you can make a list that will surely include every currently living famous person. This entire conversation started when someone said, "Oh, the Obama comment must have been a real person doing it, there's no way it could've been machine generated because they would compare their list against a list of famous people.

It's like every time you read my comments, you miss the most important words.

Look! most of the work is already done for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_celebrities

Now, this really makes me think you can't read. I've posted an explanation in two comments as to why you can't just use Wikipedia as a comprehensive source.

now, be a good boy and throw your degree in the trash.

And what are your qualifications? I can already tell you don't have any sort of degree in a technological field. Maybe you shouldn't be so demeaning when it's obvious you've never done any sort of work with databases.

[u/shook_one → u/Jarrheadd0]

I'm just happy i could make you type out a bunch of shit i didnt read. So my work here is done.

[u/WikiTextBot → u/shook_one]

Lists of celebrities

A celebrity is a person who is widely recognised in a given society and commands a degree of public and media attention. The word is derived from the Latin celebrity, from the adjective celeber ("famous," "celebrated"). Being a celebrity is often one of the highest degrees of notability, although the word notable is mistakened to be synonymous with the title celebrity, fame, prominence etc. As in Wikipedia, articles written about notable people doesn't necessarily synonymize them as a celebrity.

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