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I strongly agree with your comparison, I think it's apt. There's just no way to have a tolerably pleasant public-facing community online without some kind of mo
by ivraatiems 4y ago
I strongly agree with your comparison, I think it's apt. There's just no way to have a tolerably pleasant public-facing community online without some kind of moderation, and people have been railing about moderators in said communities for as long as those communities have existed.
That doesn't mean moderation is an easy job, or that it shouldn't be done judiciously or consistently, but it can't be abandoned.
- labrador 4y agoMy first reaction when I heard Elon Musk was buying Twitter was "have he and his team figured out the moderation problem?" followed by "he probably hasn't given it much thought because if he did he would realize he doesn't need that headache on his way to Mars."
- ivraatiems 4y agoI suspect "he probably hasn't given it much thought" sums up most of Elon Musk's recent decision-making.
- towaway15463 4y agoI imagine he’s just going to introduce a simple yet “radical” solution like allowing people to pay a small fee for verified status and adding the option to filter out all non-validated accounts. That should kill off a large number of the bots and sock puppet accounts.
- antifa 4y agoThat'll be more effective at creating a poor people exclusion zone than stopping adtroturfing/sock puppets/spam.
- IntelMiner 4y agoSounds like something he'd want anyway https://existentialcomics.com/comic/other/17 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/other/17
- towaway15463 4y agoThe fee could be a dollar a month and still be effective.