All platforms are notorious for that. Moderation is expensive, and consistent free user moderation is extremely hit or miss, mostly miss.
Unless you have enough admins dedicated to moderating every community regularly, like weekly at a bare minimum, shit will get out of hand in the places they don’t visit.
For places the size of Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Lemmy, YouTube, etc. that’s just not feasible without an army of paid moderators. User submitted reports are only useful if the users aren’t partaking, and that’s the first tier of nearly every online moderation system because few companies could even consider staffing a moderation team even remotely large enough to begin to tackle that problem.
mkmusic@torishiro.com 2 months ago
@shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works @animemes@ani.social
i saw your comment, and wondered "how bad is the situation actually"? I didn't know how bad it was. I'm so sorry you had to see this in the memes today. I apologise for my lack of sensitivity on the situation.
You've just alerted me about the predator problem on Discord, which is so massive, I think I might consider leaving the platform now... or at least, stop checking as often as I used to...
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s alright. Most people aren’t aware of just how bad it is. I’m only really aware because I’ve spent time moderating servers, and while I was never exposed to anything myself, I know people who have been. I still use the platform since my friend group is on it, but hopefully we’ll eventually find a different one that meets our requirements.