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0 pointsrpdillon4y ago0 comments

Agreed. I was curious what their policies are, and they were very easy to find[0]:

> To this end, omments [sic] that contain one or more of the following themes will be put behind a warning: Gore,Extreme Violence,Sexual Themes,Misinformation,Extreme Obscenity

> Comments that contain one or more of the following are not allowed and will be removed:

> Spam/Scam,Nudity,Bot comment, Abuse/Harassment, Illegal Content

My takeaway: - Bots are essentially banned - Any comment Netvyne's team considers extremely violent, gory, or containing misinformation will be put behind a warning, but not removed - Any comment Netvyne's team considers to be abuse or harassment will be removed - Any comment containing nudity will be removed

Nudity is notoriously difficult to moderate[1], and I suspect drawing the line on misinformation will be similarly challenging. I like the idea overall, though it would be neat to see a federated approach where different standards can be enforced on different instances. I'm not yet convinced one-size-fits-all discussion rules work well at scale.

[0]: https://www.netvyne.com/content-policy [1]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211124/15241648004/conte...

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ksarw4y ago

It seems you have a pretty solid grasp of our policy; its all in order to meet our goal of enabling civil discussion.

Indeed, misinformation is tough and is in my opinion the trickiest one. I actually didn't think nudity would be as difficult to moderate, but still somewhere up there. Thanks for sharing an example, a similar example did come to mind and we'll definitely have to iterate on our policy as time goes on.

Tolerance does vary across people, and I agree one-size-fits-all doesn't exist. That being said, sometimes is a sacrifice one is willing to make in order to participate as part of a broader audience.

With regards to federation, I am a bit familiar with Mastodon, which is what came to mind first. I see the main concept, but it does come at a cost; some things are better (or at least more user-friendly) when they are integrated. But I supposed as time goes on people could be willing to put in more work to customize their experiences.

Also, thanks for catching the typo, its fixed now!

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