Twitter confirms Twitter Blue

Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by airhead969 on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:35PM (#27317483)

I guess the issue is keeping moderation consistent (like bar exam grading) coupled with a manageable size of community that handles scaling. I wonder if social media platforms could cluster 10-25 people together into "troops" with a "troop leader" and a "guidance counselor." This way, it's not just a sea of individuals floating along ephemerally disconnected, but brings some tribal belonging and support back that people yearn for.

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Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by anyfoo on Friday May 28, 2021 @04:48PM (#27320294)

I've since come to believe that to have a high quality medium, you really need not just the editorial guidelines I've mentioned, but also someone who interprets those guidelines in the intended way, and the ability to enforce them properly.

That means you can, at best, have a small team of moderators/community managers, likely with the person who has manifested the editorial guidelines at the top. This does not scale, so the community is limited in size.

When I think back to the times of TV channels, professional magazines, radio shows etc., I remember how amazing the quality of that content could be. Reading the same magazines printed back then today confirms that to me.

Curated content wins.

Sure, some TV channels and magazines were terrible instead, but that's just because I did not agree with their curation.

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Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by lupire on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:48PM (#27317676)

Slashdot had metamoderation 25 years ago.

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Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by bombcar on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:08PM (#27317931)

Slashdot died from the incoming content, not the posts, as far as I recall from those days. Digg suffered the same fate. Reddit has so far been kept from it since moderators can only pin a few posts and only have "negative" control of the posts that appear at the top.

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Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by airhead969 on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:52PM (#27317717)

Yes, I was there. :) 23 years ago ;) I meant some sort of mechanism to improve the training/fairness/consistency of moderators rather than merely double-checking them.

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Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by JohnBooty on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:03PM (#27318587)

Their metamoderation was innovative but ultimately pointless.

Instead of having one popularity contest, it was like a popularity contest that qualified you for another popularity contest. Theoretically the metamods were "good" posters, but being a "good" poster was ridiculously easy - you could just rack up karma by parroting the hivemind and bashing Microsoft or whatever.

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Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by airhead969 on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:49PM (#27319115)

That's true. If a community platform's moderation were more professional like the example I used of bar exam graders, who grade practice samples and do other calibration exercises, it would improve the signal and tend to reduce biases if the culture were one of strict professionalism.

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