Automated moderation?
Maybe we need to employ https://www.wired.com/2017/02/googles-troll-fighting-ai-now-belongs-world/
or this https://www.webpurify.com/
Regardless of what is used it will be gamed against regular users by those seeking to silence them.
I used to read a lot of message boards on IMDB and many of my favourite threads were removed by trolls mass reporting and using whatever techniques they could to do so.
But it will be better than human moderation. IMDb moderation was great compared to other boards.
shareI didn't post on IMDB too much over the years but I saw many good threads get taken down because people would use the automated report function to have them removed.
If there is a way for that to not happen then I will support automated moderation but only if it can't be ganked.
Perhaps hiding a thread instead of getting it removed permanently would be a great way. Like if a thread or a post gets many reports, it gets hidden but you can still view it if you want to
shareThat does sound like a good idea!
But, from what I've read in the past, people like to unhide things so they can comment on them again.
That might abuse this system for cliques to smacktalk someone without them seeing it but the public can.
That would still be better than human moderation and their abuse that we are seeing on other sites
shareI'm sure Jim will look at the options as the site gets more and more on its feet.
I think an ignore button (Moved to the right with the report button) would be more useful than moderation at this early stage.