#Moderation

[pixelguzzler]

Update: r/PixelArt mods are abusing power and permabanning artists who speak out.

[philosophybits]

Even in the desire for knowledge you should show moderation so that things known won’t be badly known.

Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

[transformativeworks]

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[triviallytrue]

As a general rule, internet content moderation is opaque and inconsistent and arbitrary - we don't know who makes these decisions, we don't know how or why they're made, and we have little or no recourse when we are treated unfairly. This is unacceptable, but it's also universal on every site larger than a medium sized forum.

Internet content moderation does not scale. It cannot be scaled. Whether you are tumblr and barely scraping by or Facebook with more money than god, the bare legal minimum of keeping child porn off your site is maybe achievable, if you invest a huge amount of resources into it. Anything beyond that is nigh impossible.

So yeah, we are all forced to accept these miserable systems of content moderation that are completely unaccountable, not because the people running them are malicious (though that may also be true), but rather because the problem is basically unsolvable

[kafkasapartment]

[thesearethedaysofmylife]

[arabdoll]

Every day we all meet ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. Once you see what sort of person they are, you will realize there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.

Marcus Aurelius

[pixelguzzler]

banned from r/pixelart for a week for "sexual vibes"

[mckitterick]

A(n un-) moderated internet

source: Bluesky

[anneapocalypse]

If you can't explain to me how your moderation goals for a platform won't be weaponized against marginalized groups and the steps you will put in place to prevent that then I don't trust your aims for moderation. That does not mean I am anti-moderation; it means that rules have to be consistently enforceable within the ranges of actual human behavior and you need to consider contingencies for edge cases and contingencies for those contingencies, you need to ask yourself what can go wrong and what steps you will take to prevent abuses of the system.

[philosophybits]

Moderation is sluggishness and laziness of the soul, as ambition is its activity and passion.

François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

[myfandomrealitea]

By the way if you're creating a space like a private group chat or a Discord server it is absolutely your responsibility to make sure that space is safe.

It is your responsibility to moderate it. To regulate the behavior displayed within it. To take action when people create harm. You cannot just create this space then wash your hands of any responsibility for what happens within it.

I keep seeing so many teens making servers and chats and groups and then whining that they're getting bullied for not doing anything when people use them to cause harm and upset and I cannot stress this enough.

You are responsible for shutting that down. Or for sourcing someone to do it on your behalf. You have control of that space. You are not just an innocent bystander.

"Anything goes here, if you're offended just leave" is absolutely not an excuse for blatantly allowing things like harassment, bullying, racism, homophobia and other targeted hate.

Discord in particular is incredible for available resources for preventing things like this. There are literally hundreds of server bots you can deploy to auto-moderate and manual moderation is as easy as two little clicks.

If you feel you're responsible enough to be in the position of power of creating a space, you are responsible enough to ensure it is not used for harm.

And if you're not?

Well.

[sreegs]

the other important thing about forums is that forums are about something: you want to talk about politics? you go to a politics forum. you want to talk about pokemon? you go to a pokemon forum. you want to talk about fishing? you go to a fishing forum. it gives you complete control over what topics you consume and when you consume them.

whereas with social media everything is squashed into a single feed so you get forced to see news when you're trying to look at porn and you get forced to look at porn when you're trying to read the news. and it sucks.

yeah that's the other angle. a lot of forums had general discussions though, but you're right those people joined a specific forum for a reason first

you also could just, not click on a thread/discussion if you didnt want to look at it

[dk-thrive]

Understand: I have never known how to love something in moderation.

— Amy Lin, Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin (Zibby Books, March 5, 2024)