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The article uses moderation in a sense apart from an upvote/downvote system. Your argument is premised on a upvote/downvote system being moderation. How exactly
by esbranson 10y ago
The article uses moderation in a sense apart from an upvote/downvote system. Your argument is premised on a upvote/downvote system being moderation. How exactly does it moderate? If it merely reorders and doesn't remove, then this is not moderation in the context at hand.
Therefore your argument is invalid. (Your argument is really just orthogonal, premised on different assumptions.)
- scrollaway 10y agoThe point I was trying to make was that you can't just say "immediately" and get away with it. And upvotes/downvote don't necessarily have to merely reorder. On many websites, large counts of downvote automatically hide and sometimes delete the post in question.
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- lotsoflumens 10y agoSorry about the delay in responding ... I don't consider upvotes/downvotes by themselves to be moderation or censorship. That's just non-verbal communication. However, when an upvote or downvote system hides a post or promotes a post, then it's censorship, because promoting a post necessarily hides some other post.