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  1. Comment on What are your favourite podcasts? in ~talk

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    I'll give it a listen, thanks for the tip.

    I'll give it a listen, thanks for the tip.

  2. Comment on What are your favourite podcasts? in ~talk

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    I've started The Adventure Zone from the beginning yesterday, really enjoying it so far. I've seen bits of Critical Role, but I just can't get into their sessions the same way. There's such a...

    I've started The Adventure Zone from the beginning yesterday, really enjoying it so far.

    I've seen bits of Critical Role, but I just can't get into their sessions the same way. There's such a backlog to catch up on.

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  3. Comment on Are we going to be able to make our own groups? in ~tildes

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    But how do you decide which users are to be trusted? Who is the one that determines which users are making correct reports? The person determining that has a lot of power, and must also be able to...

    But how do you decide which users are to be trusted? Who is the one that determines which users are making correct reports?

    The person determining that has a lot of power, and must also be able to remove posts and approve posts after reading those reports.

  4. Comment on Are we going to be able to make our own groups? in ~tildes

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    Yes, but who determines those trusted users? Who decides if they are making correct reports?

    Yes, but who determines those trusted users? Who decides if they are making correct reports?

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Are we going to be able to make our own groups? in ~tildes

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    This does sound better than Reddit's moderation system, thought you're saying there would still be moderators in the Reddit sense. They would be moderating other users' ability to govern the...

    This does sound better than Reddit's moderation system, thought you're saying there would still be moderators in the Reddit sense. They would be moderating other users' ability to govern the community in addition to moderating discussion.

    for example, if a user consistently reports posts correctly for breaking the rules, eventually it should be safe to just trust that user's reports without preemptive review.

    A moderator would be the one making the distinction between correct and incorrect reports, unless you specifically would govern all the posts to establish trustworthy users, which doesn't scale well as the site grows. Someone needs to make that distinction.

    This lands us in the same trap of having a few users with control over the discussion, and additionally in control of determining the most trustworthy users. It's a good solution to relieve moderators from the amount of work done at scale, but does not solve the issue of a few users with final say over the discussion of a community.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Are we going to be able to make our own groups? in ~tildes

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    There needs to be a system for maintaining active moderation in the best interests of a group though. One of Reddit's major flaws is so few users having so much power over subreddits, especially...

    There needs to be a system for maintaining active moderation in the best interests of a group though.

    One of Reddit's major flaws is so few users having so much power over subreddits, especially with the seniority system.

    That is one major thing this site can do better.

    9 votes