For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.
For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.
How would you prevent that though? If you don’t have any moderation at all the first commercial spammer or griefer who comes along destroys your community.
My thinking is that for communities with names where its important to be impartial (like for instance a country’s name) they should have some way to appeal to the instance owner to take back the name from a mod team that you can show evidence is repetitively being unfair or biased. Something like a poll. How that could be implemented and protected from abuse, I’m not sure. For communties where its obvious its a company managing their social image, I have no problem with more harsh moderation. My main problem is political coercion and control of the media.
Wouldn’t that just push the problem up to the instance owner level?
Also, the idea of unbiased media is a nice theoretical construct but if you look at RL media options like books, news papers, TV,… you will notice that none of them are unbiased. At best you have a balanced mix of sources biased in different directions.
I dont think you understand what I mean. Active censorship of topics and discussions that go against the mod teams agenda is the problem. The content is provided by the users, the mods should not be deep throating you your media. They are there to moderate… a discussion… go look up those definitions.