Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by tabeth on Monday March 12, 2018 @02:10PM (#16570107)

I complete agree. My premise is that you can only remove two out of the four -- echo chamber, trolling, toxicity, community. If you accept this premise the only logical conclusion is to remove trolling and toxicity. Without community the point is moot, after all. So really you're removing two out of echo chamber, trolling, toxicity.

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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by frgtpsswrdlame on Monday March 12, 2018 @02:15PM (#16570166)

Hmm, I think I would choose to remove toxicity and echo chamber. I don't mind a certain degree of bad faith behavior if removing it comes at the cost of having discussions with people different from me

I think maybe a good solution would be to (1) pay mods and (2) make everything they do transparent. This will give you better mods to start out with but also gives users the power to notice mod overreach before it spirals out of control.

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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by upvotinglurker on Thursday March 15, 2018 @08:23AM (#16592181)

What's the difference between trolling and toxicity? The words have seemed interchangeable in most contexts where I've heard them used.

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