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The moderator problem is a tough one, because you want them there to remove spam and illegal content, but that's about it. You can't tell them that, because th
by mynameishere 4y ago
The moderator problem is a tough one, because you want them there to remove spam and illegal content, but that's about it. You can't tell them that, because they personally do it to stroke their ego--like a make-believe New York Times editor, swaying the public.
So how do you continue to trick them into doing their $8/hour broom jobs for free, but prevent them from injecting their dumb politics into everything? I don't think you can.
- unethical_ban 4y agoI moderate a geo sub. I've backed away from it because it is thankless and you see the worst comments all the time. And then comments like this that assign bad faith to any decision you don't like. I signed up to do it because I didn't want my geo sub to be swamped by spam, trolls and the like, and at the time I was online two or three hours a day. I do think some subs have terrible mods, and that some larger subs are manipulated and astroturfed by organizations we don't know about by supermods. But give some of the smaller subs some slack.
- unethical_ban 4y agoSeparate issue: on the internet, it is near impossible to tell good faith discussion from bad when a comment makes any kind of snarky tone or logical fallacy. And there is so much trash on the internet that it can be easy to delete really shitty low effort comments - you may imagine some young troll getting their kicks on stirring things up. But it may be just as likely they're just someone with some bad ideas who can't do rhetoric well. And so when you delete their comment, you think "yes, cleaned up a troll" while the person who tried to engage in conversation just sees censorship. Upvotes and locking comments are better than deleting or banning. Again, Slashdot has the best moderation and filter system.