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This question needs a lot more context into what you mean by moderation, but maybe to try and narrow it down: make spam so unprofitable no one does it. We get

This question needs a lot more context into what you mean by moderation, but maybe to try and narrow it down: make spam so unprofitable no one does it. We get so stuck in the “offense” piece, but there is a veritable army of people in the world trying to make the internet as unpleasant as possible. Look at the average comment thread in response to a tweet musk or another famous figure. It’s garbage memes, crypto spams, low effort content and impersonators. If “personal agency” means doing a whole bunch of busy work to sift through a river of shit to get to the occasional gold nugget… I’ve stopped using Reddit because so many of the comments are just low effort or uninteresting. So then what do you mean by personal agency, in a world where bad actors: spammers, scammers, and trolls are participating alongside the rest of us.

aliqot 4y ago
Currently moderation in the sense of modern communication is moderated, where a few apply a filter to the channels of interactions they're in charge of moderating. The personal agency model eschews this in favor of per-node subjective filtering, so the workload is distributed across nodes that receive the message. To parse or not to parse. As I have observed, initially, the personal agency model suffices. Channels are small, low amount of nodes communicating over it, what messages do exist likely belong there. Over time the channel scales, more nodes are added, more hysteresis follow, and things move to a moderated model where a filter is applied to limit the flow through the channel seeking better ratio of signal to noise. Where this model fails is at scale, as the channel scales, the capacity of the moderator fails, and more layers of moderation are added. Eventually the overhead of moderation consumes a larger part of the resources dedicated to the channel cumulatively on both sides, signal and filter. The nature of my assumption and this question is that, perhaps as scale consumes our channel, it's best to adopt a least-resistance flow of signal, unimpeded, and a return to the personal agency model where the filter exists locally rather than delegated to a centralized discriminator. Interested in what you all have to say about this.

aliqot 4y ago

Currently moderation in the sense of modern communication is moderated, where a few apply a filter to the channels of interactions they're in charge of moderating. The personal agency model eschews this in favor of per-node subjective filtering, so the workload is distributed across nodes that receive the message. To parse or not to parse. As I have observed, initially, the personal agency model suffices. Channels are small, low amount of nodes communicating over it, what messages do exist likely belong there. Over time the channel scales, more nodes are added, more hysteresis follow, and things move to a moderated model where a filter is applied to limit the flow through the channel seeking better ratio of signal to noise. Where this model fails is at scale, as the channel scales, the capacity of the moderator fails, and more layers of moderation are added. Eventually the overhead of moderation consumes a larger part of the resources dedicated to the channel cumulatively on both sides, signal and filter. The nature of my assumption and this question is that, perhaps as scale consumes our channel, it's best to adopt a least-resistance flow of signal, unimpeded, and a return to the personal agency model where the filter exists locally rather than delegated to a centralized discriminator. Interested in what you all have to say about this.