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by faeriechangling
1229 days ago
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Reddit uses the actual users as the main filtering mechanism (upvotes/downvotes, spam button, report button) and this most of the time works better for most communities. I think it's very questionable if giving moderators the power to soft-censor is a good idea, because it will cause moderators to censor posts they probably wouldn't have censored before, and moderator influence is inherently less democratic than user influence. Reddit Enhancement Suite has long implemented various filtering mechanisms for users though so users DO have some capability to censor things themselves if they have the know-how, but it's not like these mechanisms are built into say the official reddit app which is the main way reddit is overwhelmingly used. |
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I might be alone in this, but for me upvotes/downvotes/reports have become increasingly less useful as Reddit has gotten larger and larger. It's great up until a point in communities (during which time a user-base acts in good faith), and then at some point a report becomes a "mega-dislike", people click "spam" for links that are doing "better" than what they submitted, etc etc.
I've tried to stick to smaller communities to combat this, but they also can suffer from things like "drive-by" brigades from larger communities (e.g. when a post unexpectedly reaches /r/all).
> "...Reddit Enhancement Suite has long implemented various filtering mechanisms for users though so users DO have some capability to censor things themselves if they have the know-how, but it's not like these mechanisms are built into say the official reddit app which is the main way reddit is overwhelmingly used."
RES is indeed great -- although like you said it's a pity it isn't built into the site natively.