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I upvoted your comment, but presumably the idea is to get to HN-quality commentary mechanically (rather than having a handful of human moderators doing all of t
by throwaway894345 3y ago
I upvoted your comment, but presumably the idea is to get to HN-quality commentary mechanically (rather than having a handful of human moderators doing all of the moderation).
That said, I think the highest quality forum is currently lobste.rs. It might just be that smaller forums are easier to moderate, but also I think lobste.rs' moderation isn't vulnerable to some of the exploits that HN's moderation succumbs to. For instance, on HN if someone posts something mildly negative, they'll likely get moderated; however, if they post something that's pretty obviously hostile (to most people, anyway) but with the thinnest possible veneer of plausible deniability, they're not likely to be moderated (and anyone who challenges this plausible deniability may themselves be moderated for violating the 'assume positive intent' guideline). Lobste.rs' moderation lets users flag violating posts and too many flags will result in some moderation--I'm sure this could also be abused, but so far it seems to be doing a good job--maybe there's something Zsync could learn from their approach as well?
- 8organicbits 3y agoRe. HN, the guidelines cover this: > Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- aw1621107 3y ago> Lobste.rs' moderation lets users flag violating posts and too many flags will result in some moderation--I'm sure this could also be abused, but so far it seems to be doing a good job I believe HN moderation works similarly. Users can flag posts, which - given enough flags - (automatically?) triggers the [flagged] annotation. Moderators also see flags and can act further on them - adding/removing [flagged], warning/banning accounts, etc. In addition, dang has said in the past that the most likely reason some stuff doesn't get moderated is because the moderators don't see it [0], rather than them letting some stuff off the hook. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35971955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35971955
- chmike 3y agoI'ld love to login lobste.rs but we need an invite to join. How can we join if we don't know anybody ? This leaves good people out.
- cgeier 3y agoIf you leave a way to contact you, people might be able to help you with an invite.