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  1. Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - how can we maintain quality without drifting too far into "gatekeeping"? in ~tildes.official

    tevoul
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    I mean, any site like this that gets large will need some sort of automated filter system to deal with the low hanging fruit (spam, empty text posts, stuff that is obviously not appropriate). That...

    I mean, any site like this that gets large will need some sort of automated filter system to deal with the low hanging fruit (spam, empty text posts, stuff that is obviously not appropriate). That could look like AutoModerator, or it could be different - ultimately the implementation here would probably depend a lot on how moderators get implemented (e.g. whether they are linked to a particular category or site-wide, or something else entirely).

    The difference between my proposal and the way reddit currently does it is automated removals would always come with a message to the user (instead of being optionally implemented per subreddit), and removals done by humans would ALSO get an automated message without extra work on top by the moderator.

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  2. Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - how can we maintain quality without drifting too far into "gatekeeping"? in ~tildes.official

    tevoul
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    If we're talking about posts being removed because they are low quality / low effort enough to not be appropriate for any category (thinking forward to a future state where posts can be...

    If you were to post something that wasn't really suitable, how would you like to be informed of that?

    If we're talking about posts being removed because they are low quality / low effort enough to not be appropriate for any category (thinking forward to a future state where posts can be re-categorized and sub-categories exist) but aren't blatant spam, then I think it's probably important to be as transparent as possible.

    Whether it's removed by a human or an automated filter of sorts, I'd think that the user should get a notification that the post was removed and why. This would probably be in the form of an automated message saying what post was removed, what rule(s) it was removed for, and a link of who to contact if they are confused or want more information. If it was removed by an automated filter you just list a public facing name for a rule (e.g. "Text post submitted without any text"), and if it's by a human probably just have a handful of broad categories they can select from with an optional area for a clarification note that gets sent along to the user.

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