Fight spam.. and that's pretty much it. Spam immediately drives a good userbase away.
When you see shit like "Penis enlarge pills, 100% free no credit card, click here!" you know a mod isn't doing their job.
If a mod starts banning legit people for slight digressions to rules they just made up, you know he/she is reaching well beyond the extent of their responsibility, e.g. abuse of power.
Maybe to some that would be acceptable enough. I see it as pollution, dirt. Been around on the internet long enough to see what happens to forums/platforms when spam runs rampant. It eats them alive, becoming more and more brazen at their attempts with higher frequency of posting. Downvoating them to the bottom just isn't enough.
Even just 2% of content or users being spam would be enough to turn me away. I like to see here, spam is crushed relatively quickly and the culprits get publicly shamed.
I should have mentioned illegal posts, the kind that would get us shut down. Those are also very bad and under mod jurisdiction to remove.
The Voat Immune Response is rather unprecedented in my experience. This combined with limited power moderators seems to be key to the balance that keeps the place clean of spam yet protects free speech.
Youll never get that last rule to be applied around here. Too many elite keyboard warriors who think they can save the world sitting at home behind a computer.
Can we define spam? Who decides? Might it be the case that spam is an achilles heel in that no one would disagree to deleting spam but what is the definition that everyone can go by? Perhaps the site owner has to define this?
Don't some users object to certain rules being applied in subverses? ~What rules are reasonable ?
PaulNeriAustralia ago
I don't think females make good moderators - power goes to their heads like it does anytime they have power.
middle_path ago
What if a sub is getting spammed constantly with off topic content?
lord_nougat ago
Something between an extremist and a minimalist.
auto_turret ago
Fight spam.. and that's pretty much it. Spam immediately drives a good userbase away.
When you see shit like "Penis enlarge pills, 100% free no credit card, click here!" you know a mod isn't doing their job.
If a mod starts banning legit people for slight digressions to rules they just made up, you know he/she is reaching well beyond the extent of their responsibility, e.g. abuse of power.
european ago
regarding spam I have tended to feel that honest users will downvote spam. Is that not good enough?
auto_turret ago
Maybe to some that would be acceptable enough. I see it as pollution, dirt. Been around on the internet long enough to see what happens to forums/platforms when spam runs rampant. It eats them alive, becoming more and more brazen at their attempts with higher frequency of posting. Downvoating them to the bottom just isn't enough.
Even just 2% of content or users being spam would be enough to turn me away. I like to see here, spam is crushed relatively quickly and the culprits get publicly shamed.
I should have mentioned illegal posts, the kind that would get us shut down. Those are also very bad and under mod jurisdiction to remove.
european ago
I can accept that as reasonable I guess.
auto_turret ago
The Voat Immune Response is rather unprecedented in my experience. This combined with limited power moderators seems to be key to the balance that keeps the place clean of spam yet protects free speech.
Works pretty damn well so far.
totes_magotes ago
Clean up spam.
Encourage conversation within the topic of the sub.
With the community, determine what, if any, rules should be applied to the sub and then to enforce such rules with integrity.
Have fun and not take the internet too seriously.
middle_path ago
I think this is a great list, basically what I was going to type out.
Diggernicks ago
Youll never get that last rule to be applied around here. Too many elite keyboard warriors who think they can save the world sitting at home behind a computer.
totes_magotes ago
because they migrated from reddit and brought their cancer with them.
european ago
Can we define spam? Who decides? Might it be the case that spam is an achilles heel in that no one would disagree to deleting spam but what is the definition that everyone can go by? Perhaps the site owner has to define this?
Don't some users object to certain rules being applied in subverses? ~What rules are reasonable ?
Native ago
In which context?
european ago
The context is as wide as you like. Probably mainly relating to how moderators should act here.