Looking at this site-wide blackout planned (100M+ users affected), it’s clear that if reddit could halt the moderators from protesting the would.
If their entire business can be held hostage by a few power mods, then it’s in their best interest to reduce risk.
Reddit almost 2 decades worth flagged content for various reasons. I could see a future in which all comments are first checked by a LLM before being posted.
Using AI could handle the bulk of automation and would then allow moderation do be done entirely by reddit in-house or off-shore with a few low-paid workers as is done with meta and bytedance.
Good point. I was mostly thinking in moderation in terms of abuse and breaking site-wide rules. One challenge would be if there’s a rule against posting spoilers without tags, how would the LLM know if they’re spoiling the movie without the script in the training data.
There’s over 100 million users in all of these subreddits, this can’t be ignored and mainstream news will cover this more
Long-term i believe human moderators for the largest subreddits will be a target for automation while trying to scale this to the entire site.
Sorry for the late reply, haven’t figured notification out here.
My subs don’t have a spoiler risk but for some things the Automoderator is already useful. For example we have a Script that makes a post nsfw if the comments mention that. It also reports the post for later review. Same could be done with spoilers, you can react as soon as someone complaints without knowing the Script.
It won’t be ignored but I’m certain that the Powermods don’t care. The few real power Mods I know of neither care about the site or the Subreddits. They just want to be mod in as much subs as possible.
Long time I expect some bots to become tightly integrated like the repostmasterbot, BotDefense and some others but the configuration and majority of work will still be with those that are responsible to shape their subreddit. The mods.