Comment on Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 17 hours agoThere are a lot of people who make excellent mods who are not programmers. It’s already a small enough pool that requiring a particular skill only further narrows the pool. It also has a secondary effect that good mods may be unwilling to take on larger communities, or additional responsibilities.
If we want better moderation, the fediverse has to become more friendly to non technical people.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
That’s not what I’m saying.
Obviously not everyone needs to code. Once I write a bot, it could potentially be used by anyone.
Only a small percentage of mods need to also be developers. But since that group isn’t big enough yet, the solution is growth.
Not asking the platform devs to do even more. They too, are volunteers.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Fair, thanks for the clarification.