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Why Warpcast Should not Add Blocking

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interesting read - I'm not sure on the specifics of blocking. I assumed that it will be more like being unable to see someone's content in their feed and neither their comments. I can follow your argument why blocking someone not just for yourself but for your audience is a form of censorship/not desirable.

how would you reconcile that with channel moderation? seems to me like this mechanism for blocking is similar to what already exists for channels and moderation of their content.

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The way moderation currently works, is you assign a moderator account. That account must explicitly "like" all of the posts which are then shown to users browsing that channel (and I assume to some extent this impacts the ranking of content in the broader feed). It is explicitly censored - as allowing something and denying it is involves the same decision. 

This is either done manually, using something like @automod with defined rules (what you suggested as ideal) or by default turned off. 

I think censorship to some extent is useful, it's just that it shouldn't be done at platform level, instead by the users in relation to their audience. that's naturally what we do with ideas anyway - if we view our posts as distillation of broad knowledge we acquired with some kind of explicit gate for what we end up saying and not saying.

> how would you reconcile that with channel moderation?

Good question. I have not moderated a channel so I can't comment specifically on channel moderation.

However, I have been a moderator of many subreddits, some with >10M subs.

My policy is to moderate as little as possible, to always moderate under my real name (never anon), and to have full transparency into moderation logs. If you ever have a human making secret moderation decisions this is a flaw in the software--should add objective, auto rules (for example, you can limit a user to 1 post a day/week etc).

Anything else I've seen mods succumb to their worst impulses.