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Well yes, because those who don't quickly lose users due to bad signal-noise ratio

When was the last time anyone visited an unmoderated usenet group?



Frankly, LLMs with transparent prompts, as well as user-side filters based on LLM prompts (e.g. "Don't show me comment threads talking shit about Attack on Titan") could do a better and more "fair" job than meat-based moderators now.

They won't have personal biases, don't need to sleep (ending the infamous "mods are asleep, post xxx" waves), their prompts would be visible to everyone, and there could be ways for the users themselves to update the space's rules/prompts.


LLMs have their own biases.

But either way, I want people like dang to be the ones moderating and managing a community - call it "personal bias" if you'd like, but they have a vision for the space, and as long as I as a user think that that vision is of a community I want to be in, then it's fine. If I no longer think it is... I leave.


4chan is well, moderated, but it's outlived Facebook with real names.


Did the government ever moderate usenet?




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