Hacker News with Generative AI: Moderation

The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) (newyorker.com)
Open-plan offices offer few pleasures; one of them is snooping on other people’s browsing habits.
Elon Musk Pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman about Moderation (theverge.com)
Nearly two months ago, Elon Musk went on a public crusade against Reddit.
A Reddit moderation tool is flagging 'Luigi' as potentially violent content (theverge.com)
Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word “Luigi” as potentially violent — even when the content isn’t.
Why is there so much [deleted] on Reddit, they clearly didn't delete themselves? (ycombinator.com)
I can't ask this question on Reddit, because I have serious suspicions and the moderators banned me for fun when I registered on my LanskoyK account. If you open these questions on the Internet by searching on Reddit itself, the main answers are deleted along with the users, it's the same in politics, and not only there.
Warning users that upvote violent content (reddit.com)
Today we are rolling out a new (sort of) enforcement action across the site. Historically, the only person actioned for posting violating content was the user who posted the content. The Reddit ecosystem relies on engaged users to downvote bad content and report potentially violative content. This not only minimizes the distribution of the bad content, but it also ensures that the bad content is more likely to be removed.
Warning users that upvote violent content on Reddit (reddit.com)
Today we are rolling out a new (sort of) enforcement action across the site. Historically, the only person actioned for posting violating content was the user who posted the content. The Reddit ecosystem relies on engaged users to downvote bad content and report potentially violative content. This not only minimizes the distribution of the bad content, but it also ensures that the bad content is more likely to be removed.
See the submissions you have flagged (maybe accidentally) (ycombinator.com)
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Reddit mods are fighting to keep AI slop off subreddits. They could use help (arstechnica.com)
Mods ask Reddit for tools as generative AI gets more popular and inconspicuous.
Ask HN: Why was my post on cybersecurity flagged? (ycombinator.com)
Earlier I submitted a story about elections and cybersecurity, it got several dozen upvotes, and then was quickly flagged.
Ask HN: Is the threshold for flagging submissions on HN too low? (ycombinator.com)
I see highly upvoted stories such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035977 getting hidden away because they get flagged, even though the article and discussion are quite sensible.
Ask HN: Is Hacker News Being Manipulated? (ycombinator.com)
I'm all for keeping the discourse on HackerNews tight, but lately I see dozens of posts a day about serious issues for all of us being flagged.
Illegal content risk assessment for my self-hosted single-user Mastodon instance (onlinesafetyact.co.uk)
I run a Mastodon instance, for my personal social media presence.
Ask HN: Can Hacker News Stay Above Politics? (ycombinator.com)
@dang does an admirable job moderating this platform. However, the growing overlap between the political stances of prominent technologists and the entanglement of tech with U.S. politics makes it increasingly difficult to separate the two.
If You've Signed Up for Bluesky, You've Signed Up for Offloadable Moderation (dreamwidth.org)
Hello, you've been (semi-randomly) selected to take a CAPTCHA to validate your requests. Please complete it below and hit the button!
So, Bluesky Has an Extortion Problem (tedium.co)
Bluesky, until now, has had a reputation as being a more moderation-friendly alternative to X, Threads, Mastodon, and other social networks.
A Change in Moderation Staff of r/Wordpress (reddit.com)
Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control (theverge.com)
On Threads, the topic of “Threads Moderation Failures” is trending. Some users complain their accounts are being deleted or restricted for linking to articles with controversial topics.
Reddit communities will require permission while going private (techcrunch.com)
Last year, while opposing Reddit’s API changes, a large number of subreddits turned from public to private or turned NSFW (Not Safe for Work) to impact ads on the platform. To prevent this kind of change, Reddit is bringing new rules where moderators will have to submit a request when updating community-type public or private or maturity ratings of SFW (Safe for Work) or NSFW.
Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible (theverge.com)
Reddit is giving its staff a lot more power over the communities on its platform. Starting today, Reddit moderators will not be able to change if their subreddit is public or private without first submitting a request to a Reddit admin.
Permission now required to take subreddits private (reddit.com)
Starting today, updating Community Type settings requires a moderator to submit a request.
Moderating LessWrong (2018) (medium.com)
Welcome to the mod team!
New Anti-Toxicity Features on Bluesky (bsky.social)