You know what made reddit shitty? It wasn't the dev team (they were shitty too), it wasn't the website flaws, and it wasn't the banwave of censorship. It was the people. It was you guys.

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[–]theoracle 72 insightful - 3 fun72 insightful - 2 fun73 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

I am pretty sure that reddits situation is down to the mods and admins, which is down to the platform allowing them to be ahole dictators. Much better to give people the option to switch them off or to someone else, otherwise we will just have to keep forking into more and more sites.

https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/5dcx/idea_for_a_new_type_of_platform_a_tagging_based/

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    On a slightly related note, it seems after the last ban-wave, quite a few of concern trolling posts like the OP have started appearing around here.

    While I'm personally not in favor of the truly moronic anti-semitic comments that appear on some /s/all posts, it's still crucial that the way they're dealt with is not removal, but upvoting comments calling them out instead.

    The much more worrying trend is threads like this starting to pop up, especially from new accounts (who claim to be reddit refugees, but cannot be verified).

    This is how hostile infiltration of any platform starts - we need to be extremely vigilant, and remind people of this very thing.
    So far the users here have been calling out the bullshit - it's important we remember to not relent on this, as the shills sure as hell wont.

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      You get better /s/all content by subbing to your favorite non-political subs and upvoting apolitical content there.

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      While I'm personally not in favor of the truly moronic anti-semitic comments

      I want to make it clear that the functional members of the alt-right want this gone as well (we'd like removal of the incels too). Ideally, I'd like a platform that promotes rationalism above all else with a calm and collected user base.

      [–]OffAndSphere 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

      optional moderation finally gets added

      six months pass

      "Hey guys, welcome back to F##kNig####YT! Today I'll be showing you how to optimize your moderation settings on Saidit."

      "First off, do not use sort by new, unless you want to turn your experience into a carbon copy of 4chan's."

      "u/discussionmasterbot is a great community moderation bot that bans lots of dumb one-liners like 'nazi'."

      "Take a look at the value multipliers for insightful and funny upvotes. You can fiddle with them so you can view comments that are mainly funny or insightful. There's also ratio settings that can compare stuff like comments, upvotes, and loads of other information to help deal with bait or certain types of annoying, unproductive comments. Oh, did I mention you can save different types of sorting methods?"

      "That's all for today, be sure to hit the like button if you enjoyed this video, and if you want to see more, consider subscribing to my channel!"

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

      I like your post, but I think choosing moderators could be quite easy with say a ranked list. If could get more obscure for particular types of moderation like for pyramids etc. I guess people will discuss these etc and that's how you'll find them. I think whole topics will form around just the various moderation styles themselves.

      This is so obviously the future to me I am surprised it hasn't been done still yet. The first site to nail this down will dominate, it is so obviously better. It basically allows for all sites, topics, and users to coexist on one platform.