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One thing I know they do is that they have a full time community manager and after more than a year participating I can say that the community is very civilized, see also https://monday.micro.blog/

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Every social network out there has community managers. The point is, after a certain point, scale outpaces manual moderation. It's easy to keep a small community moderated, scaling that up is the challenge every single website faces.

Yeah. But this is not yet another social network isn't? Very few people would be willing to pay $5 a month compared to the number of people using Facebook or Twitter. Moderating this website is definitely a doable task.

Just the one? Do they sleep? They will need automated systems for continuous spam and abuse monitoring and removal.

There's no global timeline, no likes, no hashtags & no global search (the global Discover feed is human curated about 4x a day), so the only way to see spam posts is if you deliberately follow a spam account.

Spam replies might become an issue, but it hasn't happened yet, and there are already ways to mute or report an account if it does happen.

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