Content Moderation
thoughts on online content moderation, free speech, and related topics.
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Content Moderation
"Rather than optimizing for engagement and then trying to remove bad experiences, we should optimize more precisely for good experiences."
Current social networks don't have great tools for dispute resolution. They're a combination of anarchy (people yelling) and tyranny (arbitrary deplatforming).
An alternative approach is a global moderator hierarchy. In the event of dispute, the lowest common ancestor mediates.
Everything in Moderation by Ben Whitelaw
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Redirecting The Scholar's Stage
scholars-stage.blogspot.comTo account for the gaps in these solutions, many social computing systems use multiple tiers: Tier 1 is often algorithmic moderation for the most easy-to-catch problems. Tier 2 is human moderation, either paid (like Facebook) or community (like Reddit), depending on the platform.
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