Servers must be classified as NSFW if the community is organized around NSFW themes or if the majority of the server’s content is focused on 18+ content. Entire servers can now be classified as 18+ through the use of an NSFW server designation. Server owners can designate specific channels as being 18+ by adding an NSFW gate. And in a sense, perhaps what we need are more subdivisions, not fewer - maybe what we are seeing here is the symptom of existing tensions, albeit exacerbated through being able to reach an audience that disagrees in real-time.Our Community Guidelines require that all adult content posted to Discord be kept behind an NSFW gate. And figuring out if it breaks rules just falls back onto rules which are imperfect.Īs you sum up well, they're at such a scale that they have complete polar opposites on the platform. Going beyond that to any kind of action requires determining whether something breaks any rules, and also faces the issue that reporting is used as a weapon, so simply deleting everything (mass) reported doesn't work either. Doesn't actual address the problematic content, but perhaps doesn't feed the trolls. I think the other key issue around scale is that at FB scale, you simply can't realistically get consistency of moderation - or even a person reading each post.Īt FB scale their moderation started with "you can hide it if it annoys you" (aka not bothering) - the easiest technical solution. I'm also on record as being skeptical as to whether something the size of "Facebook" can ever be "a community": ) It isn't even remotely hypocritical to be comfortable with that, which is rather minimal and functional, while being uncomfortable with the increasingly political nature of censorship being advocated for in the largest forums. (Among the ways in which censorship is a continuum are the size of the community in which it is taking place (HN is fairly small), and the nature of what is being censored (most of what gets nuked from HN is for tone or outright trolling, though I do not assert all). It is wiser not to give that power up just because they're promising to use it for things you like today. Once they have it, what you want it for will not be something they're too worried about. Those who are using the gestalt's comfort with censorship (and equivalent comfort with censorship elsewhere) are only using the censoring of things you agree with today as a cover for the acquisition of power. Advocating for more censorship and more comfort with censorship will empower people who will eventually censor you. are you sure you're going to be the ones in charge of what gets censored? Because you aren't.Īdvocating for less censorship and less consequences for censorship, not no censorship, is a sensible Nash equilibrium to pursue for everyone. Increasing comfort with censorship of a larger range of views will also translate into increasing comfort with stronger measures taken, because of course if you are running around saying censorable things you should get higher interest rates or it should show up on your credit report. It is more-or-less a fact that zeal for censorship has gone up in the HN gestalt, and I assert the HN gestalt is making the mistake of thinking they or people friendly to their views will be the ones deciding what gets censored.
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