Hacker News with Generative AI: Moderation

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.

Reddit, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Moderation, Content Management

10 points by rntn 4 days ago | 1 comments

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.

Hacker News, Cybersecurity, Moderation, Voting

12 points by CalRobert 4 days ago | 11 comments

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.

Hacker News, Community, Moderation, User Experience

16 points by cbg0 8 days ago | 4 comments

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.

Hacker News, Censorship, Community, Moderation

59 points by ddxv 18 days ago | 41 comments

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.

Social Media, Privacy, Security, Moderation, Content Management

4 points by choult 31 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Politics, Hacker News, Technology, Moderation

12 points by tyleo 32 days ago | 4 comments

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!

Social Media, Censorship, Moderation

3 points by mawise 50 days ago | 3 comments

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.

Social Media, Censorship, Moderation, Bluesky

36 points by coloneltcb 66 days ago | 4 comments

A Change in Moderation Staff of r/Wordpress (reddit.com)

Reddit, Online Communities, Moderation

8 points by ValentineC 128 days ago | 1 comments

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.

Social Media, Censorship, Moderation, Meta, Threads

50 points by healsdata 135 days ago | 36 comments

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, Moderation, Community Management, Social Media, Platform Changes

13 points by mdotk 144 days ago | 3 comments

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.

Social Media, Reddit, Censorship, Moderation, Community Management

11 points by rntn 144 days ago | 12 comments

Permission now required to take subreddits private (reddit.com)
Starting today, updating Community Type settings requires a moderator to submit a request.

Reddit, Community Management, Moderation

57 points by focusedone 144 days ago | 35 comments

Moderating LessWrong (2018) (medium.com)
Welcome to the mod team!

Moderation, Online Communities, LessWrong

6 points by yamrzou 155 days ago | 0 comments

New Anti-Toxicity Features on Bluesky (bsky.social)

Social Media, Online Community, Toxicity, Moderation

105 points by runarberg 177 days ago | 178 comments