Ruqqus implodes due to Voat's exodus?

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[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

That's fair. A lot of people use posts like that as a test, a canary in the coalmine, so if you start removing that some people assume the censorship may run deep, which is also fair given the rampant censorship across social media.

I have been thinking of opening another saidit-like site that's highly focused on quality and would ban stuff like that. A hackernews for more than just tech talk, sort of thing.

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

I have been thinking of opening another saidit-like site that's highly focused on quality and would ban stuff like that. A hackernews for more than just tech talk, sort of thing.

Do you think you are God? No one person has all the answers. That is why the optimal solution to most problems is freedom. Give all individuals as much freedom as possible, which means freedoms that don't harm others.

The solution to the problem is to change rule 4 to simply:

  • 4) All subs must spell out their moderation policy in the sidebar. No moderation policy in the sidebar means no censorship. Any sub that violates their own moderation policy will be banned.

This gives mods the freedom to moderate, and users the freedom to make an informed decision about whether to participate in a sub. Note that the vast majority of subs on Reddit violate their own moderation policy, so this new rule 4 would be a significant rule.

I am using SaidIt because it is the best available platform. But I have offered to fund a programmer to develop a better platform specifically because of SaidIt's rule 4. So far no one has come forward. If rule 4 was fixed, I would be satisfied with SaidIt and would withdraw the offer.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Well that doesn't work in practice though, because corrupt mods just come up with corrupt rules for subreddits to destroy and censor them, so that's not really free speech is it? That's the whole problem reddit had. So your idea is actually a step backward because it encourages corrupt mods and recreates a lot of the problems with reddit that we've worked to hard to avoid.

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

Make a site that has a writing same requirement for voting and posting privileges. Some way to show the user has the ability to think abstractly and form a cogent argument.