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> abuse the mod button If someone insults them in the comments and they report it, are they even abusing the system or are they using the reporting mechanism a
by yorwba 6y ago
> abuse the mod button
If someone insults them in the comments and they report it, are they even abusing the system or are they using the reporting mechanism as intended?
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoI guess they're using it as intended there. But if they're using it because they don't like factual anti-china criticism, that's abuse.
- shadowgovt 6y agoIt depends. YouTube's comment section doesn't have a particular editorial purpose, the closest thing it has to a mission is letting people comment on each other's videos for some vague sense of "community." That's not an objective fact-oriented mission, and a moderation system that allows users to flag and kill comments that make them feel bad is still satisfying the constraints of the design.