Facebook has a long history of upsetting its users by suddenly announcing a change to its privacy settings. In 2009, as a way to quiet the critics, Facebook set up a system for its customers to vote on changes. If enough of them were unhappy, the company would back down. Now, Facebook wants to get rid of the voting.
This is how Facebook Vice President Elliot Schrage put it in a posting on the company’s website: “The voting mechanism … actually resulted in a system that incentivized the quantity of comments over their quality.”
Instead of having a vote, Schrage said, the company will evaluate comments and suggestions from users.
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