Because if you don't do any content-moderation your site will turn into a horrid wasteland that most of your users don't want to be on, thus defeating your purp

Because if you don't do any content-moderation your site will turn into a horrid wasteland that most of your users don't want to be on, thus defeating your purpose if your purpose is making money or any other reason to attract users. If your purpose is being 8chan, you'll be good. > Slashdot is a very peculiar case of near no spam filtering, yet very good user content moderation So, you're saying they have very good user content moderation. Which means they have content moderation. Sounds like it's human (rather than automated), and they have unpaid volunteers doing it. That's a model that works for some. A model of... content moderation.