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  • SorteKanin@feddit.dktoLemmy@lemmy.mlRemove yourself at once!
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    21 days ago

    I never understood the idea behind these kind of automatic slur filters.

    First of all, why even allow the comment at all? Why not just remove the whole thing? Censoring just the slur doesn’t help that much and can just be confusing.

    Secondly, by filtering the slur like this, it’s less likely that the person posting the slur would be reported and thus no moderator sees the fact that someone posted slurs (unless slur-filtered comments are auto-reported; are they? I don’t know). That’s the opposite of what you want! If you have slurs that should be disallowed, get people to report those that post them and tell people not to do it or ban them if they keep doing it.

    When it’s filtered like this and nobody reports the comment, the user posting the slur will probably just continue doing it.

    And of course in addition to all the above, there’s the problem that it doesn’t take into account the context at all, which is what leads to the image of this post.









  • SorteKanin@feddit.dktoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhat's up with all the ads here?
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    1 month ago

    It is an issue if you change instance, which you may do more often than creating new accounts on traditional social media. And again, I just find it kind of unwelcoming.

    Maybe automatically creating a report to just check the post for spam when a new user posts would be nice? Then a mod can check it out but it’s not removed automatically or blocked.



  • SorteKanin@feddit.dktoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhat's up with all the ads here?
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    1 month ago

    account age requirement and comment requirement before posting

    This can also be very unwelcoming to new users though. Reddit often feels like a closed place because so many subs have karma requirements. I’d prefer we didn’t go there.

    We should rather stop allowing sign ups without an application. The captchas are not good enough.