I moderated and was an admin for message boards and it was easy once I stopped fretting about consistency, which is not all that important and usually used as an arguing point by malcontents acting in bad faith.
I think everyone who moderated through the 2000s learned this.
I think everyone who moderated through the 2000s learned this.
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John Pettus
Everybody wants to Dunning-Kruger their way to "How hard can it be to ban one asshole?"
Do you know anything about how hard it is to write policies for content moderation? It's easy to say something's easy when you don't know anything about that thing.
Nazi Bar. Paradox of Tolerance. All correct.
Do you know anything about how hard it is to write policies for content moderation? It's easy to say something's easy when you don't know anything about that thing.
Nazi Bar. Paradox of Tolerance. All correct.
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Weirdly, that seems to matter so much more these days.
Since the staff wouldn't get rid of the assholes, the people the assholes harassed (like me) left. Now all they have left are the assholes.
A man has never wanted to debate things more
I became so immune to people calling me racial slurs because that was a twice before breakfast, 7x after dinner situation back then.