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0 pointsForTheKidz1y ago0 comments

Yes. This also holds for my favorite community on the internet, /r/AskHistorians on reddit. It's the mod team that holds it all together despite the rest of the site being a general dumpster fire. (Curiously, the least competent moderation I've ever witnessed on the internet is on the front page of reddit, specifically /r/worldnews)

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brookst1y ago· 1 in thread

/r/AskHistorians is a case study in well-managed community at scale. Sadly I don’t think it would work for standalone business that had to pay the bills.

dredmorbius1y ago

As good as AH is, and it is, it's still got some grave issues.

I'd bailed after links to LibGen / SciHub were getting my comments moderated.

Which incidentally points at a problem with moderation: no matter how well-intended, or overall effective, people take issue with their contributions being penalised and removed, especially if they sense unfairness. (Also, especially, if there's a social- or political-group bias detected, again, regardless of merits, but that be 'nother can of worms.)

I'm left with David Weinberger's observation: "Conversation doesn't scale".

<https://dweinberger.medium.com/the-social-web-before-social-...>

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