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Just add a dislike button and put controversial tweets collapsed at the bottom. It works well for reddit. Let the community moderate themselves.
by invalidusernam3 4y ago
Just add a dislike button and put controversial tweets collapsed at the bottom. It works well for reddit. Let the community moderate themselves.
- threeseed 4y agoReddit tried to just let communities moderate themselves. It resulted in rampant child pornography, doxxing, death threats, gory violence etc. It epitomised the worst of humanity. Now the Reddit admins keep a watch on moderators and if their subreddits do not meet site-wide standards they are replaced.
- thrown_22 4y agoIt resulted in people _saying_ all those things happened, but never did.
- threeseed 4y agoYou mean like this list of banned subreddits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti... "The community (Beatingwomen), which featured graphic depictions of violence against women, was banned after its moderators were found to be sharing users' personal information online" "According to Reddit administrators, photos of gymnast McKayla Maroney and MTV actress Liz Lee, shared to 130,000 people on popular forum r/TheFappening, constitute child pornography"
- thrown_22 4y agoYou mean like the people who are telling us that happened also said: > CNN is not publishing “HanA*holeSolo’s” name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same. >CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change. https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-trump-tweet/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-use... Yeah, I totally trust these people to not lie.
- dncornholio 4y agoSo instead of moderating users, you moderate moderators, still seems like a net win.
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- P_I_Staker 4y agoI think it's sad that this seems to be getting so many downvotes. You don't have to agree, but this was helpful commentary. Reddit definitely had all of these issues, and they were handled horribly.
- rchaud 4y agoDigg handled things horribly. Reddit seems to have done just fine.
- pessimizer 4y ago> It resulted in rampant child pornography, doxxing, death threats, gory violence etc. It epitomised the worst of humanity. It resulted in reddit. That style of moderation is how reddit became reddit; so it should also get credit for whatever you think is good about reddit. The new (half-decade old) reddit moderation regime was a new venture that was hoping to retain users who were initially attracted by the old moderation regime.
- pixl97 4y agoYou mean it resulted in the place that couldn't pay the bills and goes around asking for VC money to keep the servers on? Unmoderated hell holes tend to have to survive on questionable funding and rarely grow to any size.
- SV_BubbleTime 4y agoIf there is one thing I know about tech companies in the last 20 years, it's that they never want VC money unless they are in trouble... right?
- threeseed 4y agoThis is revisionist history. My Reddit account is 16 years old. I was there in the very early days of the site well before the Digg invasion and well before it gained widespread popularity. It was never because it allowed anything. It was because it was a much more accessible version of Slashdot. And it was because Digg did their redesign and it ended up with a critical mass of users. Then they started opening up the subreddits and it exploded from there. The fact that Reddit is growing without that content shows that it wasn't that important to begin with.
- tick_tock_tick 4y agoAnd Reddit was still a better site back then. Their anything goes policy is also a huge part of what made them successful back in the day.