…And under the current model, the egos of mods get crazy big as they see their community army grow bigger and they can shape it how they want, even stackoverflow suffered and developers left in droves long before LLM took its place.
I do miss the original imageboards though that used sage and was a community driven effort into moderation.
The mod ego problem will exist as long as there’s moderation, unfortunately.
It was present in the web even before it was expelled from heaven.
But it’s not necessary to remove all moderation, just global identifiers of posts and many different “moderating projections” of the same collection of data can be enough to change the climate for most of the users. Not moderation itself really matters - the ability to dominate, to shut someone’s mouth matters. If the only way you see a post is without such at all - then maybe it’s too rude. If it’s removed on the instance level on most of instances - then maybe it’s something really nasty that shouldn’t be seen. But if in some projection it’s visible and in some not - then we’ve solved this particular problem.
Yeah I agree of sorts and people have the right to be offended so I prefer looser moderation over the absolute otherwise there’s no difference between those groups that preach ‘everything inclusive (except what we don’t like)’ and those who are clearly extreme and have their own biases. The irony of freespeech is you’re going to hear things you don’t agree with, and that’s fine.
…And under the current model, the egos of mods get crazy big as they see their
communityarmy grow bigger and they can shape it how they want, even stackoverflow suffered and developers left in droves long before LLM took its place.I do miss the original imageboards though that used
sageand was a community driven effort into moderation.The mod ego problem will exist as long as there’s moderation, unfortunately.
It was present in the web even before it was expelled from heaven.
But it’s not necessary to remove all moderation, just global identifiers of posts and many different “moderating projections” of the same collection of data can be enough to change the climate for most of the users. Not moderation itself really matters - the ability to dominate, to shut someone’s mouth matters. If the only way you see a post is without such at all - then maybe it’s too rude. If it’s removed on the instance level on most of instances - then maybe it’s something really nasty that shouldn’t be seen. But if in some projection it’s visible and in some not - then we’ve solved this particular problem.
In such a hypothetical system.
Yeah I agree of sorts and people have the right to be offended so I prefer looser moderation over the absolute otherwise there’s no difference between those groups that preach ‘everything inclusive (except what we don’t like)’ and those who are clearly extreme and have their own biases. The irony of freespeech is you’re going to hear things you don’t agree with, and that’s fine.