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The problem with your model is that there won't be a community because people wont't see the same view. Reddit moderation is annoying when there are responses t

The problem with your model is that there won't be a community because people wont't see the same view. Reddit moderation is annoying when there are responses to deleted copmments or discussions about where post went. But Reddit is pretty good about leaving markers that something was deleted. The different views with your idea means might as well have two different forums. BTW, any good federated system should be able to handle multiple forums on same topic; the Reddit multi-reddits do this. Also, it will kill discussion because the positive filtering requires someone to approve posts before they are seen. If the moderators are sleeping, then no one can have post seen until they wake up. The Reddit negative filtering means that moderators delete the bad stuff when they see it. People talk about Usenet killfile and how each person doing own moderation. But having to do everything yourself was annoying. It also resulted in an indvidual view where could miss stuff. The not-very-good solution was to quote content in every post like email.

dredmorbius 3y ago
Usenet killfiles were only part of the solution, with the Usenet Cabal / The Lumber Cabal and Cancelmoose offering systemic and global control over abuse. I've argued loudly since early on Google+ (2011s-ish) that personal content management tools are part of the solution but not a total solution. It is quite easy for a single person to be utterly overwhelmed by a concerted or prolonged attack, or by factors such as pervasive cultural discrimination or abuse. And communities as a whole require systemic defences. That's a message I've taken to Mastodon and the Fediverse, where ... it does seem to largely be heard. Things are far from perfect there, but the ability for both individuals and instances to apply a range of content defences, from keyword or individual profile blocks (permanent or time-limited) to limiting or entirely blocking instances, is useful, and seems to be working pretty well at limiting the types of spam and abuse I've seen elswhere. (There are occasional outbreaks, these to date have been quite limited and quickly addressed, at least on well-managed instances. And yes, there are poorly managed instances. Those tend to get defederated quickly and widely.)

dredmorbius 3y ago

Usenet killfiles were only part of the solution, with the Usenet Cabal / The Lumber Cabal and Cancelmoose offering systemic and global control over abuse. I've argued loudly since early on Google+ (2011s-ish) that personal content management tools are part of the solution but not a total solution. It is quite easy for a single person to be utterly overwhelmed by a concerted or prolonged attack, or by factors such as pervasive cultural discrimination or abuse. And communities as a whole require systemic defences. That's a message I've taken to Mastodon and the Fediverse, where ... it does seem to largely be heard. Things are far from perfect there, but the ability for both individuals and instances to apply a range of content defences, from keyword or individual profile blocks (permanent or time-limited) to limiting or entirely blocking instances, is useful, and seems to be working pretty well at limiting the types of spam and abuse I've seen elswhere. (There are occasional outbreaks, these to date have been quite limited and quickly addressed, at least on well-managed instances. And yes, there are poorly managed instances. Those tend to get defederated quickly and widely.)