Unfortunately, there is also a need for automatic moderation.
Humans can’t catch everything.
By the way, mind telling me what was infuriating about Reddit’s automod to you?
Comment on What would community moderators want in an automod for the Fediverse?
Deceptichum@quokk.au 12 hours ago
Automod was one of the worst things to happen to Reddit from a user experience standpoint. So what I want from an automod is to never see one.
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 12 hours ago
Deceptichum@quokk.au 11 hours ago
Automatically removing comments without human oversight and for mundane things.
Randomly triggered a hidden keyword? Goodbye post.
Only wrote 49 words instead of 50? Goodbye post.
Account didn’t get enough updoots from strangers prior to posting? Goodbye post.
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 11 hours ago
Welp, the fourth one can’t happen.
The others are left to the community mods’ implementations.
Skavau@piefed.social 11 hours ago
This would just burnout moderators on a highly active communities. My preference is not have these tools work after-the-fact, after-the-post but simply tell the would-be poster that their post has hit a keyword block. But basic stuff like mandating all posts be link posts or text posts (depending on the communities focus) or instantly removing duplicate posts seem pretty necessary for many communities if the fediverse expands in population.
Account didn’t get enough updoots from strangers prior to posting? Goodbye post.
Now this one, I admit is a tough one - as it can be harsh to new users. But it’s simply based on trying to deal with spam posters. As the Fediverse grows, the high-trust public nature of downvoting should negate people wanting this.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 11 hours ago
It’s a risk I’d rather take, than letting automation make this another reddit where all the big communities are managed by algorithms.
A human could see a post was only 49/50 words and apply their judgement to know that this post is acceptable because the quality of what was said was more important than the quantity.
A human could see the word trumpcard was in fact not about Trump.
Skavau@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Without automod functionality, every single subreddit of notable size becomes utterly bombarded with off-topic posts and spam.