Not a single watcher reported mosque gunman live stream, Facebook says • Hacker News Board

Re: Not a single watcher reported mosque gunman live stream, Facebook says

#11

Post by xkcd-sucks » Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 7:56 PM UTC

dragontamer wrote: post #3

gcb0 wrote: post #2

Everyone who ever managed a (online or not) community knows that you can't scale past the moderation you can afford, because a community is only as good as its members. And if you scaled past your moderation reach, that community will surely be shitty. Why people are reporting banal obvious things? Will this be spun in the chewbaca defense facebook legal team will try to use in court?

While I agree with you, there are a large section of people online who disagrees with your premise. 8chan and 4chan exists with minimal to no moderation. Reddit has learned the importance of moderation, but only after many controversies (and those controversies have led to the exodus of "anti-moderation" advocates. As /r/CreepShots or /r/jailbait got banned from Reddit, those communities migrated to 8chan) So while y…

I haven't been active on chans for many years but as I remember there was very active moderation. On containment boards like /b/ the mods just removed "illegal porn", while the more topical boards removed irrelevant content. There was also a mod leaderboard where you could see bans, with IPs and reasons; most of them were /b/ for CP

Re: Not a single watcher reported mosque gunman live stream, Facebook says

#12

Post by dragontamer » Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 8:00 PM UTC

xkcd-sucks wrote: post #11

dragontamer wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I agree with you, there are a large section of people online who disagrees with your premise. 8chan and 4chan exists with minimal to no moderation. Reddit has learned the importance of moderation, but only after many controversies (and those controversies have led to the exodus of "anti-moderation" advocates. As /r/CreepShots or /r/jailbait got banned from Reddit, those communities migrated to 8chan) So while y…

I haven't been active on chans for many years but as I remember there was very active moderation. On containment boards like /b/ the mods just removed "illegal porn", while the more topical boards removed irrelevant content. There was also a mod leaderboard where you could see bans, with IPs and reasons; most of them were /b/ for CP

Well, by 4chan, I really mean /b/, which was internet famous for its minimal moderation. The other boards were strictly moderated to stay on topic IIRC (/v/ was strictly about video games)

EDIT: Now that I think of it, 8chan had moderators as well. But they were also quite lax about most things. (This EDIT replaces and contradicts a previous paragraph that used to be in this post). 8chan's rule was "no doxxing", you pretty much could do anything else though.

Fully unmoderated discussion exists in USENET (or at least, used to exist in USENET. I haven't used that in a while). But as the major internet companies gained control of USENET, they were inevitably forced to clean up the discussion (pornography, pirating, etc. etc. couldn't be hosted on Google's servers)

-----------

At the end of the day, I just want to bring forth the attention that at least one internet community (8chan) believes in little-to-no moderation. Its not a viewpoint I agree with, but its something that group definitely believes in.

Re: Not a single watcher reported mosque gunman live stream, Facebook says

#13

Post by tinus_hn » Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 9:09 PM UTC

dragontamer wrote: post #12

xkcd-sucks wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't been active on chans for many years but as I remember there was very active moderation. On containment boards like /b/ the mods just removed "illegal porn", while the more topical boards removed irrelevant content. There was also a mod leaderboard where you could see bans, with IPs and reasons; most of them were /b/ for CP

Well, by 4chan, I really mean /b/, which was internet famous for its minimal moderation. The other boards were strictly moderated to stay on topic IIRC (/v/ was strictly about video games) EDIT: Now that I think of it, 8chan had moderators as well. But they were also quite lax about most things. (This EDIT replaces and contradicts a previous paragraph that used to be in this post). 8chan's rule was "no doxxing", you…

Usenet has a lot of illegal content. The only ‘saving grace’ is that the groups that have most of that are unreadable because of spam.