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I like how you've set the example and then folks here have taken it upon themselves to help police things. It really has felt like a community watch. I wonder
by robg 18y ago
I like how you've set the example and then folks here have taken it upon themselves to help police things. It really has felt like a community watch.
I wonder if the folks at Reddit could have stomped out trollish behavior if they called it out as it developed. Did users try to do so? Or was it like a mob smashing windows every where?
- pg 18y agoThe founders of Reddit had a deliberate policy of never censoring anything. They only banned spammers. And the trolls arrived gradually, so there was never a point where it was clear that something had to be done about it. Exactly like happened to NYC, actually. All this stuff is still being figured out. I do think that trolling (in the broader sense) is temporary, though. It's just the kind of bug that happens in any new system before it stabilizes.