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The scale of "forums from the good old days" is much smaller by a few orders of magnitude, and even that suffers badly from the eternal september problem once t
by thrdbndndn 5y ago
The scale of "forums from the good old days" is much smaller by a few orders of magnitude, and even that suffers badly from the eternal september problem once the population rises.
>the answer is to not build it
I think this is also OP's main point, which I particularly don't agree with. The current state of GMaps community with whatever levels of moderation Google put into is a net positive experience for its users. So no, not building it would actually make it worse. And the bad actors are not "bad enough" to the point that is analogous with glass shards in cupcakes.
But again it's subjective so you're entitled to your opinion.
- Nextgrid 5y agoI agree, they are smaller. But if you can't scale them safely then keeping them small is an appropriate solution until a better one becomes available. > The current state of GMaps community with whatever levels of moderation Google put into is a net positive experience for its users. I'm not advocating against GMaps entirely, but this feature which apparently allows people to upload pictures in bad taste could go, or at the very least be reworked to make it clear to the users that this is unmoderated/poorly unmoderated and that there might be distasteful stuff in there. At the moment, the platforms put lots of effort to present themselves as safe spaces when in reality they aren't. At the very least, they could be honest about it and let their users make their own decision as to whether to view the content.