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0 pointsdredmorbius9y ago0 comments

It's not.

Reddit doesn't allow subreddits to limit who can moderate posts or comments except by taking the subreddit private and limiting the membership.

It's actually a bit of a major pain, particularly for smaller public subreddits.

Reddit's moderation system in general is just hugely problematic. It kind of works, but it really doesn't, and has received very little love.

The first question for any such system should be "what is your goal?". Reddit serves popularity relatively well. Accuracy, relevance, information: rather less so.

Some non-brief thoughts on that from a few years back:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28jfk4/content...

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sitkack9y ago

Great writeup. Too much of these web "platforms" and use the word loosely with air-quotes, don't support the level of compositional delegation that could/would enable what you are looking for w/o having to make your own platform.

The only thing I can suggestion w/o understanding your needs on more than a superficial level would be to create bots that have admin access, that attach "flair" that denotes rank that the bot uses to move stories around, etc. Network effects and availability still make sites such as reddit very attractive.

I have always wanted a multidimensional discussion, so that joke posts and memes automatically diverge from the current hyperplane of the discussion.

dredmorbiusOP9y ago

Thanks, and largely agreed.

What Reddit does offer, and woeprks fairly well, is moderation tools and teams sufficient to scale out pretty well.

A bigger problem is that conversation sinply doesn't scale well, something old-timers have been realising for a while. I've got a Dave Winer quote somewhere to tthat effect, and was rereading Shiky's "A Group is its Own Worst Enemy" which suggest what I'm increasingly concluding: with the right people, from 2-3 through maybe 50-100 people can actually discuss something. More than that and it's broadcast or a large number of comingled side conversations.

I'm coming to appreciate Wordpress and blogging platforms' capabilities, and sheer size. There's a ton of blogged content out there, it's mostly that finding and commenting on it is challenging.

Another element that's lacking is filtering tools, for which I think randomness and/or community ought play a larger role -- filtering content up through smaller groups.

Also both implicit measures and known trusted quality "roots" (vetters / editors).

I'm coming to appreciate Wordp

sitkack9y ago

In the Reddit model, it would be nice to have sub-sub-reddits, where a splinter group can discussion a facet. For example, given a Redis subreddit, there could be a Lua-Redis sub-sub-reddit with a smaller audience and whose best posts bubbled up to the parent. I find that a smaller but more active community is preferable over a larger anonymous, passive one. People are quicker to help each other out, share w/o feeling stupid and don't blend into the background, keeping snark and insult to minimum.

As you mention, it is broadcast vs discussion.

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0 pointsdredmorbius9y ago0 comments

It's not.

Reddit doesn't allow subreddits to limit who can moderate posts or comments except by taking the subreddit private and limiting the membership.

It's actually a bit of a major pain, particularly for smaller public subreddits.

Reddit's moderation system in general is just hugely problematic. It kind of works, but it really doesn't, and has received very little love.

The first question for any such system should be "what is your goal?". Reddit serves popularity relatively well. Accuracy, relevance, information: rather less so.

Some non-brief thoughts on that from a few years back:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28jfk4/content...

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sitkack9y ago

I have always wanted a multidimensional discussion, so that joke posts and memes automatically diverge from the current hyperplane of the discussion.

dredmorbiusOP9y ago

Thanks, and largely agreed.

What Reddit does offer, and woeprks fairly well, is moderation tools and teams sufficient to scale out pretty well.

I'm coming to appreciate Wordpress and blogging platforms' capabilities, and sheer size. There's a ton of blogged content out there, it's mostly that finding and commenting on it is challenging.

Another element that's lacking is filtering tools, for which I think randomness and/or community ought play a larger role -- filtering content up through smaller groups.

Also both implicit measures and known trusted quality "roots" (vetters / editors).

I'm coming to appreciate Wordp

sitkack9y ago

As you mention, it is broadcast vs discussion.

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