This Website Will Self Destruct

Re:This Website Will Self Destruct by eyelidlessness on Sunday May 31, 2020 @10:48PM (#23375084)

Have you written about your experience with abuse, or are you willing to share? It's absolutely awful that you would experience that for something so obviously positive, but if you have thoughts you want to share on that it could be helpful for those of us who want to continue to challenge abuse in tech generally and might be educational for people here (maybe me) who engage in harmful behaviors and don't realize it.

(It's also not your responsibility to publish your abuse, I'm only opening up the opportunity to say more if you want to.)

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Re:This Website Will Self Destruct by FemmeAndroid on Sunday May 31, 2020 @10:56PM (#23375114)

I definitely will once it's no longer up. I might before then, once I improve the moderation tools a bit more. But between just being a neat thing to spam, and specifically targeting me as a trans woman, a lot of people seemed to enjoy posting hateful messages on the site when it was popular on reddit.

The anti-trans messages were really important for me to remove. They weren't particularly hurtful to me, but a good portion of my webcomic's audience are trans teens, and I _really_ didn't want their first experience at this website I made to be hate directed at them.

Thanks for asking. I'll definitely write more at a later date. :)

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Re:This Website Will Self Destruct by eyelidlessness on Sunday May 31, 2020 @11:17PM (#23375203)

Thank you for this response. I'm sorry that it's been a magnet for abuse at all, I'm glad it hasn't been particularly hurtful to you, and I'm especially glad that you're taking moderation seriously. I will keep an eye out for whatever you write up and amplify it when that time comes.

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Re:This Website Will Self Destruct by geitir on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:35AM (#23375486)

May I suggest an upvote and downvote system for each message? With 3 downvotes removing the message

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Re:This Website Will Self Destruct by forgotmypw17 on Monday June 01, 2020 @01:24AM (#23375664)

Three-reports-to-remove, along with moderator review for the removes, seems to be the golden standard for machine-aided moderation since the days of AOL.

The downside of it is that by the time you have 3 downvotes/reports, at least 3 people have already been exposed to the content. It might not seem like a lot, but that's 3 people who had to read something unpleasant, hurtful, or just a plain old waste of time on your resource.

Minimum 3 readers, usually many more, because people rarely report things, per spam/troll adds up fast.

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