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If you don't weed your online garden it will fester and turn into a sh*thole that nobody else wants to be in. If you didn't have strong moderation here on HN, y
by mmastrac 6y ago
If you don't weed your online garden it will fester and turn into a sh*thole that nobody else wants to be in. If you didn't have strong moderation here on HN, you probably wouldn't be posting here.
- EricE 6y agoI don't need companies to moderate for me. Give me tools to moderate my own content, thank you.
- goatinaboat 6y agoGive me tools to moderate my own content, thank you. Yep. In the old days you had a killfile in your newsreader (NNTP client), problem solved.
- caseysoftware 6y agoAs I've said elsewhere: Personally, if [company] wants to filter or censor, go for it if and only if a) they disclose it and b) I can turn it off. We have a model for this already, it's called "safe search" When you filter without disclosing, you're stealing my agency and creating a situation for near-undetectable abuse.
- joshuamorton 6y agoYou're welcome to find a platform that does that. Perhaps unfortunately for you, I, like most users, prefer the platform to handle it for me, because I don't want to sift through garbage. > We have a model for this already, it's called "safe search" An interesting position, keep in mind that many people consider the act of ordering to be a form of censorship. That is, it is "censorship" if a site is pushed to the second page of the Google search results. You can't opt-out of that.
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- crtasm 6y agoI can turn off safe search but that doesn't reinstate all the pages/sites that have been delisted entirely.
- account42 6y agoAlso, all major search engines will still filter lewd content even with safe search off unless you include trigger terms that makes it certain you are searching for that kind of content.
- mmastrac 6y agoI'm in perfect agreement, but you'll need to break up Twitter and Facebook first and get the babies onboard with a decentralized system.
- lopmotr 6y agoMailChimp isn't a community is it? You can't read other people's mail if you're not on their address list. Recipients probably don't even know their emails came from MailChimp, let alone go there to participate in anything. With this rule, MailChimp is just poking their finger into organizations' private relationships with their subscribers. Imagine a church emailing its members before Easter saying that Jesus rose from the dead. Since that's impossible, it's a clear violation of this misinformation rule. But I doubt MailChimp will ban it because their "sole discretion" is obviously going to be biased political opinion, not anything objective.
- Lammy 6y agoI agree with this take, but in a positive way instead of a negative way: If I find a community's norms distasteful I am empowered to leave :)