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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I don’t think your distinction between moderation and filters is correct.

    I would say it’s closer to filters are something to curate what you see, and moderation is to curate the community.

    Trust based systems are absolutely an amazing idea, but it is a very good idea to make it so once you have a level of ‘trust’ you don’t just apply filters, but actual moderation instead. Having a hybrid system, where you can apply filters from a certain set of users, but also allow purely trolling or immoral(ie cp and gore) to be fully removed so that new users or visitors to the community do not have issues.

    It also serves as a stronger prevention measure against racists and nazis.

    It also serves to preserve the correction function of communities, without allowing popular will to reject reasonable expectations just because they dislike them. That has happened a lot in redditor communities.

    I strongly agree that purely centralized moderation is bad, but some level of centralization of moderation is beneficial.

    You could also have trust go by community rather than platform based to prevent exploitation