Moderators do not exist outside of the public. They are not special individuals with special motives. If there is bad content out there, it’s either going to be retracted by the source. Removed by the instance owners, as a public and high friction action, suppressed by the public consensus of many persons voting for it to be moderated out of view. And if it’s being persistently posted by a user, this user should be ostracized off the instance , either by public intervention by the instance admin (account deletion) or algorithmically by mass voting from peers.
Beyond that, and it’s already a good compromise, the user will not be protected from themselves because they opens the door to infinite abuse from the moderator class.
It’s just a fact of life that when you send information out there, there is no getting it back. The system to get out back is the system that enabled Reddit’s despotism and is now being leveraged through the APIs. Nobody should be more powerful than a order, except , a group of users.
Moderators do not exist outside of the public. They are not special individuals with special motives. If there is bad content out there, it’s either going to be retracted by the source. Removed by the instance owners, as a public and high friction action, suppressed by the public consensus of many persons voting for it to be moderated out of view. And if it’s being persistently posted by a user, this user should be ostracized off the instance , either by public intervention by the instance admin (account deletion) or algorithmically by mass voting from peers.
Beyond that, and it’s already a good compromise, the user will not be protected from themselves because they opens the door to infinite abuse from the moderator class.
It’s just a fact of life that when you send information out there, there is no getting it back. The system to get out back is the system that enabled Reddit’s despotism and is now being leveraged through the APIs. Nobody should be more powerful than a order, except , a group of users.