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I wouldn’t consider myself “technical”, so I don’t know if this is possible, but: What about designing the entire system around tagging and filtering? Anyone c

I wouldn’t consider myself “technical”, so I don’t know if this is possible, but: What about designing the entire system around tagging and filtering? Anyone can post anything, but users can choose which tags they want automatically hidden. Example - any post with the word Trump in it gets automatically tagged with Trump, politics, etc. This would remove the “filled with whackjobs” problem while simultaneously allowing for free speech.

bawolff 6y ago
That assumes your users are tagging things correctly and arent intentionally trying to maliciously bypass the system. What you're suggesting isn't all that different from usenet, which largely failed due to the spam problem.
- keiferski 6y ago
  No I wasn’t assuming that users would tag messages themselves. Presumably the system itself could just filter things by keywords.
  - bawolff 6y ago
    Either the filter will be trivial to bypass, or you have invented strong AI.
Hitton 6y ago
How would you suggest to actually do that without just moving problem from moderating content to moderating tags? How would be people motivated to correctly tag their own posts or alternatively prevented from maliciously tagging posts they don't like?
- keiferski 6y ago
  I didn’t mean for users to tag their own posts. The system itself would just tag everything. Of course you may still get people trying to get around this, but I think you could avoid most outright awful stuff.