Aral BalkanRight, fediverse, let me know what you think. Long-form comments also welcome.
Mastodon instance moderators should…
Be able to delete other people’s posts
Only ever ask people to delete a post themselves
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Folks, just wanted to say thank you for sharing your thoughts and the great feedback.
Also, please see my follow-ups as the character limit in poll options is very limiting.
🫧 Social coding commons@aral curious if your poll was inspired by mine, where I took a single-person instance as the example of my #ThoughtProvoker toot..
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116542809803489003
Like in the responses to your poll it triggered a whole bunch of interesting discussion. Unfortunately all happens on a communication medium where all insights are lost tomorrow (except for those who keep records and archives, I guess :)
I think really this is an "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" kind of thing, which is inherent to how we evolve the app-centric fediverse. We try to hammer all forms of communication into a Microblog design.
The app platform becomes a straightjacket way of doing things as intended by its developer owners, plus a bag of features to allow variations to that for instance owners, so they can deal with a certain set of edge cases.
I'd choose the option "it depends". It is solution-specific. But there needs to be crystal clear mutual expectations and proper management thereof.
This whole idea of one-size-fits-all Moderation is super weird and unnatural. This is why I am really happy with my - still hobby track, since not earning money from it - exploration of Social experience design. And it constitutes a full-blown field of IT open for anyone to join the adventure of exploration. See how social and cold hard tech can come better together.
The way Moderation works now is artificial, band-aids to make a social network arrangement work somewhat better, while it is wholly unfit to carry all the social communication use cases it is applied for. The whole blocking and suspending thing, ram that button when dissatisfied, is a huge blunt hammer to social nuance and leads to often inhumane parasocial online culture. But it is a best-we-have solution to app-centric golden hammer development.
@smallcircles Hadn’t seen it but I have now ;)