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   Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 12:00:35 JST Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢

   • BlueBee

   @BlueBee

   For us admins & moderators, we occasionally see the comments reported. It's actually hard to decide because:
   1. You have to understand the context. To do that, you have to read the entire thread and follow the flow of conversation.

   2. The cited reasons the comment was reported was often not accurate, and was only out of an emotional response, or just because they disagree with the person.

   3. You have to check each post. Often, people goes into a rampage and finds every single post and comment from other threads (even unrelated ones), in an attempt to permanently ban the person they disagree with.

   4. Both parties are doing the exact same thing they are accusing each other of.

   5. You need to be as balanced as possible. Otherwise, one camp will accuse you of this and that because you only took action on them but not the other.

   6. We are also humans, with our own opinions. It's a challenge to separate our personal stand on things.

   7. If we want to make a post and clarify things, we just can't. Or, rather, we avoid it, because it will just be misunderstood, and we'll more likely bring both camps down on us. 😅 Imagine a pacifier or reasonable person intervening in a fight, the people they're trying to stop punches the neutral party together, and forget their own fight.

   In gaming, we call it #ChatWar. They intentionally push a person to say nasty things so they can report them. Once the target falls for the trap, they mass report that person. Of course, the other camp is doing the same, and you have mass reports from both camps.

   It's a #PITA.

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     Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 20:03:26 JST Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢

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     • Jerry Bell :bell: :llama: :verified_paw: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified:​
     • Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:
     • BlueBee

     @Raccoon @BlueBee @jerry

     True! Once we find the radicals and extremes, it returns to a civil discourse. And yes, it's so complicated and heated, and time-consuming to check, sometimes, just delete all the posts (sadly, will probably have false positives).

     (aside: Ironically, we don't get paid for this, yet we are more reasonable and patient in moderation; compared to Meta, their agents get paid, but they don't even check. ^_^;;)

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     Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon: (raccoon@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 20:03:27 JST Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:

     in reply to

     • Jerry Bell :bell: :llama: :verified_paw: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified:​
     • BlueBee

     @youronlyone @BlueBee @jerry
     Thankfully it comes in sparse waves over here, but it's been so complicated and heated that I've just given up on trying to even moderate beyond whether or not people are breaking the serious rules: no posting pictures of violence without a CW, no calls for violence against civilians, no assertions that ALL members of a racial/ethnic/religious group are somehow responsible for or in support of the actions of a few members of that group.

     Fortunately, once we cut out enough of the "Netanyahu represents all Jews" and "Hamas represents all Palestinians" bullshit, which are both claims coming from both the radical groups here, it chills down to people mostly talking about how shitty the Netanyahu Regime and Hamas are, which is probably the most productive conversation to be having. (Though I do find the "Genocide Joe" remarks unhelpful)