Worth reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderation
My view is that it is needed. Otherwise communities quickly devolve into cesspools. Even toxic places like 4chan have moderation, despite attracting the worst of humanity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderation
My view is that it is needed. Otherwise communities quickly devolve into cesspools. Even toxic places like 4chan have moderation, despite attracting the worst of humanity.
There are removals for ToS/legal reasons, which can be fairly universally applied. I see that as traditional moderation.
However, there are also community-specific removal paradigms based on what a moderator team sees as the vision for a space. This is much more "curation" than it is moderation.
So, assuming we will always need category 1 moderation, why do we marry only one set of category 2 moderation (curation) to a dataset of user-submitted posts and comments? What's the harm in allowing me a moderated but uncurated feed, and allowing me to apply my own filters? This would allow topic-specific items to congregate in one place with different curation paradigms present based on what users want. This solves many of the problems I see in the federated-reddit world.