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> If you leave it up to each individual to decide what is appropriate or inappropriate, and provide them with the tools to block content they consider inappropr

by u801e 6y ago

> If you leave it up to each individual to decide what is appropriate or inappropriate, and provide them with the tools to block content they consider inappropriate, that's a burden on them, because you're not taking care of it at the community level. The assumptions behind having individuals decide what's appropriate or not are: 1. The majority of the community would make the same choices 2. Those posting what most feel is inappropriate content would not get any responses because no one would see it 3. Because of the lack of response, those posting inappropriate material would move on elsewhere and no longer post.

alex_g 6y ago
And if I join this community, I need to go through the effort of setting up software/apps to enforce my content choices. And if I'm viewing a conversation/thread/topic with something blocked in it, where I have blocked it but other members of the community have not, what does that experience look like to me? And if a spammer posts a dozen links to their website, but I haven't blocked that content yet in my content filtering setup, that'll be fun. This just sounds something like Parler. You can post anything you want there, nothing is blocked, and you're free to set up browser-based filters to hide the content you don't wish to see. In effect, you end up with a community biased towards those who are comfortable with vitriol, and as such it's filled with terrible content.
- u801e 6y ago
  > And if I join this community, I need to go through the effort of setting up software/apps to enforce my content choices. Typically, that involved using an existing application to connect to the service and read posts. As you spend more time reading through current and past threads, you would get an idea what you want to filter and what you want to see. In other words, you would set up your filters over time as opposed to doing everything at the start. > And if I'm viewing a conversation/thread/topic with something blocked in it, where I have blocked it but other members of the community have not, what does that experience look like to me? If no one responds to the post, you simply wouldn't see it. Otherwise, you would see responses to a post/comment that you couldn't see. The software could also allow you to hide any responses to that post if you had no interest in the subthread(s). > And if a spammer posts a dozen links to their website, but I haven't blocked that content yet in my content filtering setup, that'll be fun. I guess that depends if your client is configured to display linked content inline rather than just the urls. I don't use clients that display content inline and then just add a filter for the spam post. > This just sounds something like Parler. You can post anything you want there, nothing is blocked, and you're free to set up browser-based filters to hide the content you don't wish to see. In effect, you end up with a community biased towards those who are comfortable with vitriol, and as such it's filled with terrible content. It's how usenet worked and there were plenty of vibrant communities spread across many groups that lasted decades, if not longer.

by u801e 6y ago

alex_g 6y ago

And if I join this community, I need to go through the effort of setting up software/apps to enforce my content choices. And if I'm viewing a conversation/thread/topic with something blocked in it, where I have blocked it but other members of the community have not, what does that experience look like to me? And if a spammer posts a dozen links to their website, but I haven't blocked that content yet in my content filtering setup, that'll be fun. This just sounds something like Parler. You can post anything you want there, nothing is blocked, and you're free to set up browser-based filters to hide the content you don't wish to see. In effect, you end up with a community biased towards those who are comfortable with vitriol, and as such it's filled with terrible content.

u801e 6y ago
> And if I join this community, I need to go through the effort of setting up software/apps to enforce my content choices. Typically, that involved using an existing application to connect to the service and read posts. As you spend more time reading through current and past threads, you would get an idea what you want to filter and what you want to see. In other words, you would set up your filters over time as opposed to doing everything at the start. > And if I'm viewing a conversation/thread/topic with something blocked in it, where I have blocked it but other members of the community have not, what does that experience look like to me? If no one responds to the post, you simply wouldn't see it. Otherwise, you would see responses to a post/comment that you couldn't see. The software could also allow you to hide any responses to that post if you had no interest in the subthread(s). > And if a spammer posts a dozen links to their website, but I haven't blocked that content yet in my content filtering setup, that'll be fun. I guess that depends if your client is configured to display linked content inline rather than just the urls. I don't use clients that display content inline and then just add a filter for the spam post. > This just sounds something like Parler. You can post anything you want there, nothing is blocked, and you're free to set up browser-based filters to hide the content you don't wish to see. In effect, you end up with a community biased towards those who are comfortable with vitriol, and as such it's filled with terrible content. It's how usenet worked and there were plenty of vibrant communities spread across many groups that lasted decades, if not longer.