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Re:XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works by Spivak on Sunday October 16, 2022 @07:23PM (#33228117)
2M “subscribed” users to a subreddit is about 10% or 200,000 daily viewers with about 1% of those commenting and 0.1% posting so 2,000 comments and 200 posts per day. Some subs will be more or less but that’s the magnitudes we’re talking about.

The equivalent situation assuming mods review every comment would be a subreddit with 1 billion users. If mods are only reviewing reports which is some small percentage of comments then adjust accordingly.

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Re:XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works by fullsend on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:04AM (#33229713)
Very well put, it's not even close to the same ballpark. It would also be like moderating a 1 billion user subreddit where nearly every single post is off topic and comes from different users, whereas in subreddits a few super users often produce a huge percent of the content.
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Re:XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works by asah on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:19AM (#33229774)
> more review every comment

Moderation workflow starts with user-reports on posts/comments. At scale, you can set a threshold as well, which dramatically reduces the number of items to review.

Obviously, scaleup the number of reviewers. Obviously, add some obvious algorithms: warnings, temporary/permanent bans, etc. ...

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