Free Speech and Offensive Content

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

Dealing with offensive content means that the majority of the content that the average user sees by default shouldn't be offensive to him.

I disagree. It depends on what the user's goal is. Avoiding offense is what nancy boys aspire to.

RANDOM is useless.

Wrong.

If you don't like how a sub is moderated, don't go there and possibly mute the sub.

Admirable, but the site will suffer from bad content if your default front page isn't appealing. This is the fine line Voat trod, with more or less moderation of subs getting them into trouble. Either your site needs a strict policy that you can hold moderators accountable to, or your default subs need to be admin-only, without separate moderators believing they have control.

What will new visitors see? This is the "front" page. Tailor it to not drive people away, but to still attract the people who have been driven away from other sites. For logged-in users, this should simply be their subscribed subs minus their muted ones, which is a way of asking for those posts to be shown.

Should "all" exclude muted subs? To me, yes. That makes it easy to browse items from new and previously-idle subs without being bothered with crap I explicitly muted. This is especially important as a site grows with different diaspora groups on it. This mattered for Voat and Saidit. Maybe it won't for yours, if it never grows that big.

[–]fschmidt[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

What will new visitors see?

They would see MOST. If not logged-in then SUBSCRIBED=MOST.

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

subs muted by N users. So MOST would exclude the most offensive subs.

Where "offensive" here means a plurality or majority of your users don't want to see it, which isn't what it means.

Do you never mute subs you agree with precisely because it's boring shit you agree with? Do you never see an influx of users you don't agree with? If you want your users to comprise a hive mind, it needs to be an exclusive club.