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So I've never managed a subreddit or a Facebook page/group. I once managed a forum where my options were to Delete and Edit comments, but I only used Delete and
by SllX 8y ago
So I've never managed a subreddit or a Facebook page/group. I once managed a forum where my options were to Delete and Edit comments, but I only used Delete and would message the user why, it was a small forum though so if it were say, 3x or 5x larger I'm not entirely sure I could have moderated the entire thing by myself.
I'm explaining my ignorance on this subject matter because I want to ask you, and you seem like someone who might know, how do Reddit's and Facebook's tools compare? From my point of view, Reddit is pretty well moderated, each sub having its own rules that at least in the subs I frequent, are actually fairly well moderated. They have tools like automoderator and I've heard of subs I don't frequent preemptively banning users for having too much karma in subs they dislike. Probably overkill, but given the types of communities they are it seems to work for their purposes regardless of whether I agree with them or not.
If I look at a comment thread on Facebook, there doesn't really seem to be any kind of conversation happening, just "conversation". There's some basic threading now but even with that a Facebook "conversation" seems to just be one long string of human consciousness.
Now there is a difference in scale, Facebook has over a quarter of the Earth's population on its platform. That said, there is also a difference in scale between Facebook's resources and Reddit's, so is there some reason they choose not to develop new and better mod tools? Or are their mod tools cutting edge already and the percentage of humanity on their platform is just so large that even with cutting edge mod tools it just isn't enough and throwing more money at it doesn't make it any less hard?