Spiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agoDo we need administrators and moderators to manage our conversations for us?message-squaremessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareDo we need administrators and moderators to manage our conversations for us?Spiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square66fedilink
minus-squareSpiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-226 days agoGiven childporn, we’d like to exclude it from the conversation. We could handle it personally. We could have a human offering censoring advice. We could have an ai doing that. We could have a shared list, identifying it for us. Compiled by any or all of the above. We could weight any of those by trustworthiness.
minus-squareSemjaza@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·26 days agoModerators can be chosen by the people, and changed more easily. Machine algorithms are a black box of uncertainty, and the ineffectiveness and mess that things like the YouTube moderation algorithm are hardly an endorsement of them. What’s wrong with having moderators?
minus-squareSpiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·25 days agoI don’t like having a cop hovering over our conversation telling us who can talk and what we can say. That’s what is wrong with having moderators.
Given childporn, we’d like to exclude it from the conversation.
We could handle it personally.
We could have a human offering censoring advice.
We could have an ai doing that.
We could have a shared list, identifying it for us. Compiled by any or all of the above.
We could weight any of those by trustworthiness.
Moderators can be chosen by the people, and changed more easily.
Machine algorithms are a black box of uncertainty, and the ineffectiveness and mess that things like the YouTube moderation algorithm are hardly an endorsement of them.
What’s wrong with having moderators?
I don’t like having a cop hovering over our conversation telling us who can talk and what we can say. That’s what is wrong with having moderators.