Scott M. Stolz

@xigoi The horror!!!

@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA Be careful. Some people might take your dad’s lawyer up on that.

@ZILtoid1991

If you thought Twitter’s nonexistent moderation was bad, then get ready for Meta’s moderation.

To be fair, there is no global moderation on the fediverse. Anyone can start up their own instance with their own rules, or lack thereof. But that is also a plus since you or your server administrator decide how to moderate content, rather than depending on the decisions of some mega company’s moderation team.

@ma1w4re It’s because it works similar to email. When someone posts, it sends out copies of the message to all of the followers. But some don’t arrive, or some people have blocks in place, or something is not configured right. As a result, not all servers get the complete conversation.

But some people are working to fix that so that all of the servers that support threaded conversations can download the complete conversation.

I’ve actually seen some forum software that did not hide the report button in the UI. :-) You didn’t even have to post to the API. You could just fill out the report form and report yourself.

One use case for it is to remove a post that you are not allowed to remove yourself. Some forums don’t let you edit or delete your own posts after 15 minutes, so you don’t change what you originally said.

It would be interesting to see how people would behave if you had both a “Disagree” and a “Low Quality” button. Would it make any difference, or would people who dislike it also hit the low quality button out of spite?