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> "Why not just delete offending comments..." How do you define offending? Some people are offended by a great many things. China is offended if you point out
by RobertRoberts 6y ago
> "Why not just delete offending comments..."
How do you define offending? Some people are offended by a great many things. China is offended if you point out they have human rights abuses. The US is offended if you point out their interference in other country's affairs. Thailand literally makes it illegal (jail time) to offend some people that in the US is not only legal, but encouraged by our culture!
It's not so simple or easy.
- jonnycomputer 6y agoNo it is easy. You define offending as whatever the moderator finds offending. Like a strike in baseball. But you can always moderate the moderators.
- wolverine876 6y agoIMHO this argument is potentially interesting philosophically, if someone has something new to say. It's an appeal to the logical extreme of post-modern relativism (and when we see logical extremes, I believe it's a good question to ask - is this a real problem or just philosophical). It also is misleading, IMHO, because it conflates morality, offensiveness, and power. Regardless, these kinds of philosophical arguments can be continued indefinitely, but so is the one that says the Internet is a figment of my imagination. I'm talking about reality. In reality, the human mind doesn't need and very rarely uses the extreme of hard and fast algorithms; we are not computers. I can judge good from bad, constructive from destructive, etc. and it is easy to identify most of the problematic comments. When it's a forum with rules, it's easy to identify (again, a wild guess) 95% of them.