[randerson]

A well moderated forum (like HN) is great. I don't have time for the signal-to-noise ratio of X.

IMHO Reddit would be better if it had AI moderators that strictly follow a sub's policies. Users could read the policies upfront before deciding whether to join. new subs could start with some neutral default policy, and users could then propose changes to the policy and democratically vote on those changes.

[taikahessu]

> users could then propose changes to the policy and democratically vote on those changes.

Which, in fact, would open up the same rat race with determining which accounts are real and so forth.

Not disagreeing with you, just circling around this same problem. Feels like the world still isn't ready yet.

[Rebelgecko]

If the policies are public, there's a lot more transparency. eg my city of millions of people has a subreddit. The head mod bans people for criticizing a certain dog breed. This "policy" is pretty opaque, but if the AI enforced subreddit rules say "thou shalt not mention the dog's breed when commenting on articles about someone being mauled to death", more people would be familiar with the rule (and perhaps there would be more organized discussion).

I was on a subreddit for a while that voted on rules and had a rotating dictator to facilitate them. It worked decently well, although it never got to the point where the sub was brigaded. This was also pre-LLM so moderation was still a big time sink and the sub eventually fizzled out

[7bit]

Bad mods will ignore the rules, regardless how transparent they are.

We're talking about a multi-layer problem where every solution open another multi-layered problem.

[TheCleric]

That’s because certain dog breeds aren’t more likely to maul and saying otherwise is ignorant fear mongering.

[Rebelgecko]

Then the subreddit can codify that by having a policy that ignorance is a bannable offence!

[tokyobreakfast]

Try criticizing Apple or China or other sacred cows and see how quickly your post gets flagged.

[Andrex]

Honestly the most cohesive experience I've found online are forums with strict, sometimes overly strong, moderation where it's allowed to also complain about the mods openly. They can have the power but at least let me bitch when they fuck up.