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by toofy 1088 days ago
yes, this is one of the trade offs of any system built where one must decide between human moderation/curation vs automating moderation/curation.

if automation is chosen there will absolutely be situations where perfection is impossible. if human’s unparalleled ability to see nuance is chosen then the cost scales along with the amount of information.

the fact is, if we want a community and we want to keep signal above noise, we will need some form of removal of spam, child porn, racism, etc…

automatic tools can’t nuance as well as humans.

then human mods start nuancing and someone will point at stuff and call it biased.