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My belief is that forum stakeholders do not want to invest in content moderation. Spam posts need to be deleted, content needs to be checked, people need to tr
by julianlam 5y ago
My belief is that forum stakeholders do not want to invest in content moderation.
Spam posts need to be deleted, content needs to be checked, people need to treat each other well.
Contrast to discord, where if you find a spammer, just ban his ass. The spam message (or bad content) will already have scrolled out of view of most users ...
So it's just cost cutting from up above.
- watwut 5y agoMost forum stakeholders and moderators do OT for free, in their own time. Calling them lazy is absurd. Lazy people don't bother running subreddits, discord servers and so on.
- julianlam 5y agoThe moderators sure aren't lazy, I meant the stakeholders one step removed. They see the costs associated with content moderation as too steep given the intangible benefits of running said forum, and cut the entire thing altogether. I'll revise my earlier post.