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Even with infinity resources available for manual human moderation, you eventually hit a wall where different sub-communities will simply have different standar
by mikepurvis 6y ago
Even with infinity resources available for manual human moderation, you eventually hit a wall where different sub-communities will simply have different standards for what is acceptable to them— what might be reasonable debate in one circle is gaslighting and triggering to people elsewhere. It's not really up to the platform to impose a global code of conduct, and attempting to do so (outside of banning the most obvious of bad behaviours or things that are actually illegal) never seems to go well for platforms.
So yeah, I agree with TFA in the sense that these are problems to be solved largely at the system level. For example, compared to Twitter (where anyone can reply-to, quote, RT, and @user anyone), Twitch and Tiktok seem to do well at permitting individual creators to have their own space with their own exclusive authority over what is and isn't okay in the space. And they have (or at least enable to exist) lots of tools for exerting that authority— witness things like "bye trolls" scripts on Twitch that do have to be set up in advance, but then can be used at the drop of a hat in response to brigading to immediately close the stream to new followers, and disallow posts from non-followers, plus delete chat posts from anyone who joined the stream in the last X minutes.
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- johnnyanmac 6y ago>you eventually hit a wall where different sub-communities will simply have different standards for what is acceptable to them with the utopic assumption of infinite moderation, I don't see a problem here. Different houses will have different rules and levels of moderation (a meme community will have different standards from a more sensitive topic). As long as the moderation informs newcomers of the rules, they behave under that sub-community if they choose to participate (while respecting global community rules, and of course server country laws). This is all under the assumption that "sub-community" is distinctly defined. For something truly monolithic like Twitter, the only choice seems to be to leave control to the individual, and perhaps allow private groups to be formed.