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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] -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Misinformation shouldn't be a removal reason. It's an easily abused rule, and it validates the notion that suppression is happening. By allowing it to stay, you can gauge how pervasive a belief is, and you have a handy ability to comment an explain to future readers the level of bullshit in the comment. This also makes for less work from the mods.

Correction links mean fuck all to the original poster, so putting them in a mod log isn't that helpful as most won't see it that might benefit from it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

understandable (e: except for TOS violations)

sometimes i wish i could tag a bad comment under my posts to the mods like “hey keep this little freak of a guy around unless they get worse, i want something to cite next time i complain about transphobia/sexism/racism” lol

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

Not removing misinformation doesn't mean not enforcing other rules. It does mean you need a more concrete reason to do so.