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Re:Reddit Mods and Scaling Problems in Social Control by numpad0 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @03:35PM (#34714619)
Dang might be well-intended kind dictator, but he’s no machine. He’s just a very thoughtful and kind person with human limits and capacities.
Re:Reddit Mods and Scaling Problems in Social Control by tough on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:56PM (#34715913)
DanGPT won't have those limitations
Re:Reddit Mods and Scaling Problems in Social Control by goatlover on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:05PM (#34716049)
What about when DanGPT hallucinates a violation?
Re:Reddit Mods and Scaling Problems in Social Control by TeMPOraL on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:12PM (#34716997)
Email [email protected] to report DanGPT is having a trip.
Re:Reddit Mods and Scaling Problems in Social Control by OrvalWintermute on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:33PM (#34716480)
Dang is a member of a specific community. Consequently, even if well intentioned, he is likely to share their cognitive biases and perspectives.

I think this is why we won't have great transparency around banning, shadowbanning, or a check on the censorious power of flagging.

Re:Reddit Mods and Scaling Problems in Social Control by NotPractical on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:43PM (#34716628)
I imagine that (thoughtfully) moderating a site as large as HN is no easy task, and though I'm all for more transparency, I think logs like that have the potential to open a whole can of worms and add much more burden on Dan. All of a sudden you get a bunch of HN posts that solely exist to criticize Dan's decisions which clog up the feed. If a rule is added against this it looks like even more censorship.

Lobsters [1] has mod logs, but it also has a much smaller community, and it's invite-only so there's less need for moderation in the first place.

[1] https://lobste.rs/moderations

Re:Reddit Mods and Scaling Problems in Social Control by ilyt on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:22PM (#34718427)
I don't think logs are needed in community moderated by single person, don't need logs to know who did what.

But for something like Reddit when there is more mods the anonymity basically means impunity to any judgement; nobody but mods themselves can say whether a certain bias in actions can be attributed to few mods or to everyone in the mod team.

And frankly if you can't handle a critique of your actions you shouldn't be moderating actions of others in the first place