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When you need moderators in private chat something is messed up socially and technologically. If you and I are texting, privately, and you say something to me
by betwixthewires 5y ago
When you need moderators in private chat something is messed up socially and technologically.
If you and I are texting, privately, and you say something to me I don't like, I'll tell you., or I will stop talking to you. That's healthy social interaction. If I report it instead, that's not healthy social interaction, and it appears to me the tech companies designing these solutions to problems that were solved a decade ago are more than happy to oblige because it gives them an excuse to surveil and censor. They're encouraging unhealthy social interaction because it serves their ends to do so.
If an instant messaging application has moderators it's not an instant messaging application.
- rchaud 5y ago2 billion people use Whatsapp, some of them for purposes that are not as pedestrian as yours. Private Whatsapp groups can include thousands of people and the topics can be anything from retail discount alerts, to COVID updates, to political organizing. That absolutely merits some kind of reporting capability, particularly if criminal activity is being conducted or is about to be conducted.
- betwixthewires 5y agoAlright well I'm not a WhatsApp user, so I have a couple of questions: In these large groups that obviously need moderation, are the moderators appointed in some way by WhatsApp, or are they like classical rooms in that the founders of the room pick the moderation team. Also, do one to one rooms have reporting functionality and who picks the moderator that it is reported to?
- Anunayj 5y agoSome people have started using Whatsapp for Telemarketing (message based, not voice). I frequently use the report option to report them. So I feel like there are reasons to have that.