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[Lemmy] mods, there’s no point to moderating content for “misinformation” if you don’t link to a fact correcting article (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/unpopularopinion

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hate twitter, but this is something its community notes gets right. it takes all of two clicks for us to see a removed comment and when it’s “Reason: misinformation” that does nothing to combat the misinformation.

like you don’t have to link articles for obvious stuff like antivaxx shit (though that’s appreciated). but when it’s like deep lore on political parties or terrorist groups, or when the comment is like 80 paragraphs long “reason: misinformation” doesn’t really cut it and doesn’t inform the community of what specific point(s) of information were false.

for all but the most egregious misinformation (such as those encouraging or threatening harm, which should be modded anyway for those reasons), if you can’t link an article in the modlog it’s almost better to leave the comment up and let your community do a paragraph by paragraph fact check for you. otherwise it’s just kind of festering out there unchecked, your servers are still hosting the misinformation, just in modlog form.

i think giving info correcting links was more common in the past so no idk why it’s uncommon now. hoping this can be some friendly constructive criticism :)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even something like "Removed: potential misinformation; please provide at least 1 source" might help improve things.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, absolutely.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of variables in the mix right now. I don't think Lemmy UI does any kind of automatic follow-up on mod actions; just the modlog entry. Considering what I've seen in the modlog these last few months, I don't really blame them for being a bit curt there lol.

Some 3rd party UIs will let you automatically reply with the action reason, but they're all a little different. In other cases, instances rely on automod tools that detect the removal, but AFAIK, they just DM the user that an action has been taken. rather than anything other users can see (outside the modlog, that is).

TL;DR is that Lemmy's mod tooling leaves a lot to be desired and has been / continues to be a source of many complaints.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the explanation, I really don't know how all this works in practise ^.=.^