If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)
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Re: If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)
#2What's an example of a major site with a good community?
Re: If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)
#3What's an example of a major site with a good community?
free karma answer: "Hacker news"
Re: If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)
#4Most places benefit from having strong and effectively enforced moderation policies. However, I also think there's significant value in having some places that don't, that serve as content-neutral platforms, the social media equivalent of the post office.
Re: If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)
#5Well, duh. The problem is applying these policies - because blindly applying policies usually leads to mixed results (innocents banned, trolls using a loophole in policy and proliferating). But to quote the author -
> we have a way to prevent gangs of humans from acting like savage packs of animals. In fact, we’ve developed entire disciplines based around this goal over thousands of years.
We 'just' need to introduce institutes of online courts, judges, lawyers, and presumption of innocence (good thing that enforcement can be automated, so we do not need the execution squad). Also, you kinda need someone to write these policies, and approve them. Maybe an elected group of people - maybe even two groups, to balance the democracy/influence?
If you are not already doing it for your website, you are obviously an irresponsible moron.
Re: If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)
#6What's an example of a major site with a good community?
Github?
Re: If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)
#7Re: If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)
#8What's an example of a major site with a good community?
'Major' is up to personal definition and will distract people here no doubt. Metafiter has been my long-time lighthouse for this kind of gauge, though obviously not as big as its peak.
https://www.metafilter.com/newuser.mefi
- Anyone can view the site and its content
- Very clearly putting their rules of the road up (link above) before you can 'join'
- Commenting/posting/membership is a $5, one time fee
- A one-week wait before you can post
- Paid moderation
And it works.
Re: If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)
#9Re: If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)
#10This post is more reasonable for smaller curated communities, but as we can see from, well, every large social website that exists currently, it can be difficult to scale. I'm curious what the other thinks the solution would be to an obvious example like Twitter. When a website consists of so many groups of users that everyone's definition of 'assholes' contradicts the others, you find that banning them gets to be pretty difficult, not to mention the amount of humans that are required to moderate.
edit: Even if you have a policy that seems perfect to you, it will not be executed perfectly in practice when there are 1,000 different people attempting to enforce it as moderators.