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Even if you have all the software handled, building a team of moderators who are willing to sift through all the crap and stop the child porn, cat in a blender

Even if you have all the software handled, building a team of moderators who are willing to sift through all the crap and stop the child porn, cat in a blender videos, war footage, sexual harassment, upskirt crimes, etc. etc. is tough. It's not the software that's hard. It's the moderation. Pure text like Hacker News is a safe zone from this kind of crap. But multimedia sites like Twitter, Threads or BlueSky need to deal with the filthiest content and sanitize their servers. Even as their members complain about borderline not-a-child porn just a petite lady who is over 18 (yadda yadda) flame wars. Moderator teams grow tired of that bullshit. --------- Ex: it's not Twitch that's hard to make. But instead the difficult thing is effectively moderating the hot-tub meta, as streamers like to call it.

PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago
> Even if you have all the software handled, building a team of moderators who are willing to sift through all the crap and stop the child porn, cat in a blender videos, war footage, sexual harassment, upskirt crimes, etc. etc. is tough. In the context I think we're discussing, you deal with that by controlling who has accounts on the instance, not by policing posts one by one.
- dragontamer 2y ago
  Do you allow replies to your Mastodon instance? If so, you'll be policing the replies. And those replies can potentially be coming from across the Fediverse from other servers.
diggan 2y ago
> Pure text like Hacker News is a safe zone from this kind of crap. But multimedia sites like Twitter, Threads or BlueSky need to deal with the filthiest content and sanitize their servers I'm guessing Hacker News is safe because of the context and the small size. Other text-only forums I've moderated in the past have needed plenty of moderation for various horrible stuff that's been linked. And links we have on HN as well, but it doesn't get nowhere near as much misuse as I've seen in other text-only places.
- dragontamer 2y ago
  Is anyone around here posting unmoderated videos as part of the discussion? That's the thing: if a link comes from Facebook, YouTube or whatever, you know it's at least passed the first steps of moderation. I'd expect that constantly posting links to OnlyFans or other riskier sites will get you flagged or banned around here.

PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago

> Even if you have all the software handled, building a team of moderators who are willing to sift through all the crap and stop the child porn, cat in a blender videos, war footage, sexual harassment, upskirt crimes, etc. etc. is tough. In the context I think we're discussing, you deal with that by controlling who has accounts on the instance, not by policing posts one by one.

dragontamer 2y ago
Do you allow replies to your Mastodon instance? If so, you'll be policing the replies. And those replies can potentially be coming from across the Fediverse from other servers.

diggan 2y ago

> Pure text like Hacker News is a safe zone from this kind of crap. But multimedia sites like Twitter, Threads or BlueSky need to deal with the filthiest content and sanitize their servers I'm guessing Hacker News is safe because of the context and the small size. Other text-only forums I've moderated in the past have needed plenty of moderation for various horrible stuff that's been linked. And links we have on HN as well, but it doesn't get nowhere near as much misuse as I've seen in other text-only places.

dragontamer 2y ago
Is anyone around here posting unmoderated videos as part of the discussion? That's the thing: if a link comes from Facebook, YouTube or whatever, you know it's at least passed the first steps of moderation. I'd expect that constantly posting links to OnlyFans or other riskier sites will get you flagged or banned around here.