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Reddit and HN are both missing two key ingredients on the moderation side: Transparency and accountability. There's nobody watching the watchmen, essentially.
by gthtjtkt 9y ago
Reddit and HN are both missing two key ingredients on the moderation side: Transparency and accountability.
There's nobody watching the watchmen, essentially. That leads to a lot of frustration, anger, mistrust, and abuse.
- paulmd 9y agoIn particular, there is no guarantee that moderators are any good. Whoever registered a subreddit first "owns" it and moderates it themselves/chooses additional moderators. That's it. This means there was a "gold rush" in the early days and if some shitter is sitting on prime real estate (like brand names of products) there's nothing you can do about it. If they decide to close the subreddit by making it private, nothing you can do about it. If they go inactive and are still squatting on prime digital real-estate, nothing you can do about it... if they later get hacked but are still inactive, doubly nothing you can do about it.