Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
When All You Have is a Banhammer: The Social and Communicative Work of Volunteer Moderators
cmsw.mit.edu
Social Platform Trust & Safety and Stewards & moderators are important
It feels like the fundamental problem in massive social networks is that software scales, but moderation doesn’t really.
“None of these anti-Instagram platforms can succeed over the long term because a true escape from something like Instagram would require not only getting off social platforms — any social platforms — but also getting out of society itself.“
phoebe • Normal sounds
I was surrounded by peace nerds talking about inclusion and plurality, but I have to confess, sometimes the event didn’t feel very inclusive or plural. Speakers often talked with the unstated assumption that left-ish politics are obviously correct. At times I felt the uncomfortable dissonance of being around a group of people explicitly talking... See more
All of this will tend to require that national actors— who sometimes like to act like every solution they offer is, almost definitionally, turnkey— become much better acquainted with the detailed operations of those they are seeking to help. And that will mean understanding that, at the operational level, almost every local newsroom is different,... See more
Help for Local Newsrooms Needs to Meet Them Where They Are
Be the best at what matters most.
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar.
Learning is downstream of doing. The order should rarely be reversed. Most real knowledge, knowledge worth attaining, lives in the hands . It must be cultivated gradually, like a garden. Really, it must be grown. Most real knowledge is the result of doing something deliberately for a long time and steadily making small improvements. It requires a... See more