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Correct me if I’m wrong but hasn’t Stack Overflow used consensus to moderate with great success? What is the reason that consensus driven moderation works well

Correct me if I’m wrong but hasn’t Stack Overflow used consensus to moderate with great success? What is the reason that consensus driven moderation works well on Stack Overflow but not other forums like Twitter?

tylersmith 6y ago
It's been a very long time since I've seen anyone use SO as an example of good community moderation. Everyone I know and the general sentiment I get online agree that their moderation is far too heavy handed and leads to an unpleasant experience for most participants.
shijie 6y ago
I would say that with SO, amortized consensus is fine due to there being a "right" answer to a technical problem or question (more or less). Twitter deals mainly in the market of human opinion, which is necessarily far more nuanced with n sides to a story. This makes Twitter the arbiter of truth for their platform. Perfectly legal, as it's their platform, but I wouldn't expect a free exchange of ideas on such a platform.
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CDSlice 6y ago
On StackOverflow there is a simple, objective measure for judging answers and posts by. Namely “Does this answer actually solve my specific problem?” If there are syntax errors or if the answer plain just doesn’t solve the problem it won’t get upvoted or selected as the correct answer. On Twitter what objective measure are you going to use to evaluate “The election was stolen by widespread voter fraud”? The news? Half of the country believes that “liberal” news is full of lies and the other half thinks the same of “conservative” news.
GrumpyNl 6y ago
I have to disagree, there are to many down votes on legit questions but they did not rephrase it properly or didn't show the proper code. It should be more help full, specially when you down vote, give a reason and solution or advice.

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Correct me if I’m wrong but hasn’t Stack Overflow used consensus to moderate with great success? What is the reason that consensus driven moderation works well

by runarberg 6y ago

tylersmith 6y ago
It's been a very long time since I've seen anyone use SO as an example of good community moderation. Everyone I know and the general sentiment I get online agree that their moderation is far too heavy handed and leads to an unpleasant experience for most participants.
shijie 6y ago
I would say that with SO, amortized consensus is fine due to there being a "right" answer to a technical problem or question (more or less). Twitter deals mainly in the market of human opinion, which is necessarily far more nuanced with n sides to a story. This makes Twitter the arbiter of truth for their platform. Perfectly legal, as it's their platform, but I wouldn't expect a free exchange of ideas on such a platform.
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CDSlice 6y ago
On StackOverflow there is a simple, objective measure for judging answers and posts by. Namely “Does this answer actually solve my specific problem?” If there are syntax errors or if the answer plain just doesn’t solve the problem it won’t get upvoted or selected as the correct answer. On Twitter what objective measure are you going to use to evaluate “The election was stolen by widespread voter fraud”? The news? Half of the country believes that “liberal” news is full of lies and the other half thinks the same of “conservative” news.
GrumpyNl 6y ago
I have to disagree, there are to many down votes on legit questions but they did not rephrase it properly or didn't show the proper code. It should be more help full, specially when you down vote, give a reason and solution or advice.