If we had to ask each person before converting their text to audio, it just wouldn’t feasibly happen.
Which part isn’t feasible? If you have the skill and capacity on the team to write something which will scrape forum posts, check if they have karma above a threshold, convert them to speech, and post them as audio, it seems more likely than not that you’d have the skill/capacity to edit the tool such that it DMs the authors of the posts it wants to scrape, asking them to reply “Yes” or “OK”, and then only uploads posts where the author did respond to the DM with such a reply.
If you think that most authors wouldn’t reply, so this would make the tool much less useful, then this seems like a different claim. Especially if you’re only doing recent posts, it seems somewhat unlikely that the authors will not see their DMs, which would mean that a lack of reply is not that unlikely to indicate a preference against inclusion.
Which part isn’t feasible? If you have the skill and capacity on the team to write something which will scrape forum posts, check if they have karma above a threshold, convert them to speech, and post them as audio, it seems more likely than not that you’d have the skill/capacity to edit the tool such that it DMs the authors of the posts it wants to scrape, asking them to reply “Yes” or “OK”, and then only uploads posts where the author did respond to the DM with such a reply.
If you think that most authors wouldn’t reply, so this would make the tool much less useful, then this seems like a different claim. Especially if you’re only doing recent posts, it seems somewhat unlikely that the authors will not see their DMs, which would mean that a lack of reply is not that unlikely to indicate a preference against inclusion.
If I were to receive such messages, I would likely fail to respond (unintentionally) at least 20% of the time.
This seems roughly consistent with “somewhat unlikely”, I expect the fraction is similar for me.