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[–]theoracle 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Hi d3rr nice to meet you. I think it's a good idea. I can totally accept that it could be a hell of a lot of work to fully implement. My idea on implementation though would be to try implementing it incrementally, an Elon Musk style strategy. To that way is there any small part that would be easy to implement? I was thinking that comments instead of being deleted could be collapsed. The deleted comments already present a problem for reviewing moderation logs. Deleted posts can still be read but not comments. You would still delete illegal stuff for certain.

I am up for trying to help with code and with improving Notabug, but I am somewhat novice. Surely some code can be copied from Notabug to saidit?

Is the code on github?

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Instead of NAB you could also try to implement your ideas in Lemmy. I think Lemmy will become popular and the future of reddit clones. They just got a bunch of money in a grant, so they get to build it up for like a year full time, it's gonna be solid. The codebase here is dangerously old.

[–]theoracle 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I had a look at lemmy and it's extreme leftwing pro antifa stance is quite scary. I thought of federation as a good way to protect against plarforms that go bad, but what lemmy and it's friends are doing is just cutting off platforms they don't like from their fediverse, like with Gab....

I have been discussing my idea on ruqqus and a user there had some really good ideas for a tagging system as well as some blockchain stuff. I will make a post on the tagging as I think that's the way to implement my idea.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Far lefties building censorship resistant platforms is a head scratcher for sure. Just like Mastodon.

[–]theoracle 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

That's the thing they don't seem censorship resistant at all. Well at least not how they are using them, as the amount of censorship going on makes reddit look mild. They are basically deleting ANY right wing opinion or user....

Would it be hard to implement an option in the side bar to make moderated comments either hidden, collapsed or revealed? I think that would be the best most simple implementation of my idea.

If you have that option, I think you will have an edge over ruqqus, which is growing at a crazy rate now.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

that wouldn't be too bad to implement in this codebase. that's a cool halfway point between the choose your own mods (NAB) model and the reddit model. you might want an admin override for doxx/illegal comments.

[–]theoracle 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks d3rr I would really like to see this implemented as I think freedom of choice is what platforms are missing. I made a post on it https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/5aia/can_we_have_an_option_preferably_in_the_side_menu/ to see support and ideas. I know magnora7 is concerned it could turn the place into voat. But I feel that voat is what it is because of it's users and there censorship is used much like on the authoritarian left does to suppress the other side. This idea of mine hasn't really been tried thoroughly yet, so no one can be certain what it will produce. But I think because it aligns with people's natural rights like freedom of speech and choice then it will work well, for the same reason the concept of America worked well, freedom is the better way.

Maybe if you implement this and see an uptick in growth and it seems to work well, you can consider the more full idea.

And yes certain content like dox/illegal will need to be handled differently.

Thanks