The number people on this site just solidly convinced that the Nazis and bad people are around because staff loves them and not because moderation of millions of accounts is very very hard and expensive is. Staggering.
“oh just use automation.” You mean the one currently mismarking trans accounts as mature? You think they just need to flip a no Nazis switch on the moderation-o-matic?
“oh why did they manage to get rid of that post about staff being Harry Potter fans” because there was a lot of targeted harassment and it was a single account, not the millions that make up Tumblr. And actually it’s a very straightforward labor protection to make sure your staff don’t get harassed. It’s actually very bad to insist that staff gets harassed as long as there are other moderation issues.
half of the posts on nazi and terf blogs is like. ‘well. they banned me for the 32nd time but they haven’t seen the last of me, racistName33! [gets banned within a week]. like at some point without asking for a phone number (bad) or an id (even worse) the problem of sufficiently dedicated assholes can make a new account is probably basically unsolvable
Pretty much this. I don’t think the people complaining about staff not doing anything against Nazis or Terfs actually see how much discussion there are within these spaces of how often they get nuked and just re-create new accounts. There’s a reason they use tags to find each other.
Not to mention there is no way i’d ever find automation or AI in any way to accurately detect hate speech or harassment, when human beings who are trained and can detect context, dog whistles, and known rhetorics of certain communities can still get it wrong when moderating hate speech.
My favourite complaint is always the “omg, why is staff allowing X on here”, like… Do you think staff just goes “Well this is usually against our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, but let’s make an exception for this one right here, let’s get them in here and fuck shit up and let’s not do anything about it”…?
My favourite is the people who get banned themselves for harassment or whatever and then make a new account 30 seconds after their ban to complain that the presence of nazis and terfs makes it obviously undeniable that staff is allowing them to stay.
My brother in ban evasion you just