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Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by mschuster91 on Friday April 30, 2021 @03:45AM (#26990779)
Who even uses dedicated forums anymore? Outside Hacker News and subreddits, the only one I somewhat infrequently visit is xda-developers and that's it.
Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by ChrisRR on Friday April 30, 2021 @04:27AM (#26991020)
It sounds like you use dedicated forums then
Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by throwaway0a5e on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:42AM (#26992651)
People who are willing to put up with reduced volume and velocity of content in exchange for content not all being targeted at the absolute bottom of the barrel like you get on "mass market" platforms that attempt to cater to every niche and allow the internet riff raff into every niche in the process.
Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by intricatedetail on Friday April 30, 2021 @03:54AM (#26990825)
Then a Facebook group for car owners. Facebook then should split proceeds with the group admins.
Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by Rastonbury on Friday April 30, 2021 @04:16AM (#26990952)
This seems absurd. Why should the group admins get paid when the value is generated by the community?
Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by mschuster91 on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:27AM (#26991369)
A value is also, and not to a small part, generated by the group admins and moderators - which is also why there have been a fair share of controversies regarding subreddits whose mods sold out (e.g. r/wallstreetbets).

Fostering a community is hard work... kicking out spammers, fraudsters and peddlers of illegal material (cp and DMCA), dealing with trolls and shills, directing newbies to useful resources for example. Without moderation (or too lax moderation criteria) your forum will end up overrun with legally questionable material (4chan, 8chan, 8kun), alt-right conspiracy theories (Parler, gab.ai), porn (r/worldpolitics) or questionable "advice" (r/legaladvice).

The problem is that moderating content is rarely positively rewarded - HN with the constant praise of u/dang for their moderation work is the example proving the rule. You're too lax? Users complain that the community is "devolving" from its purpose. You're too strict? People will raise off-site shitstorms or run organized brigading attacks.

This is why group admins deserve to be compensated for their efforts (and in the case of FB mods, way more compensation given the constant onslaught of cp, gore and other extremely vile stuff).

Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by andrepd on Friday April 30, 2021 @07:29AM (#26992079)
Why should Facebook get paid when the value is generated by the community?
Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by faceplanted on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:35AM (#26991422)
They manage the community, if you have unmoderated groups you get 4chan and similar which no-one wants to advertise on.

Also it incentivises moderating groups rather than just letting them be and doing the bare minimum.

I still don't like the idea but entirely for the reason that it adds financial incentives to demand moderators force groups to be advertiser friendly in more ways than just removing toxic content. If advertisers don't like something it will simply be neglected in comparison to the more advertising relevant ideas.

Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by throwaway3699 on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:08AM (#26991617)
You do realise this is the exact argument that Facebook themselves make when people say 'the value is generated by the community' yet FB rake in billions?
Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by faceplanted on Friday April 30, 2021 @07:27AM (#26992062)
Facebook argue for paying their community moderators?