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So many of the absolute worst accounts I suspend should *never* have gotten past signup 😮💨
If your username contains a slur, hate-speech, or a well-known troll or dogwhistle reference, then it is a failure of your moderators and administration if that account ever sees the light of day.
If someone walks into your instance doing a Nazi salute and you don't slam the door in their face *hard* then you've let your community down.
I'm looking at you mastodon.social, mas.to, vivaldi.net, ...
@alice I agree with you. Just one question. What is a dogwhistle reference? That is a new one to me
@alice True, but moderators are human. If the vast majority of Nazis get told to fuck off before they ever get a chance to open their account, but one or two occasionally slip through the net and then are promptly told to fuck off once the mistake has been realised, I'm not sure I can ask for much more than that.
@alice I don’t think it’s as easy as you believe. Moderating big servers is difficult.
https://mas.to/@markwyner/115489852379410925
@alice I wonder if it would be possible to set things up so that it won't let you make an account with any words in a blacklist, and if anyone on an instance uses said any such word, the moderators are notified with the context and everything so they can decide whether to ban.
@alice the problem is that there are like 5 moderators taking care of these huge places. if i could pay money to have more moderators (good and qualified ones) come in and help moderate all the stuff we get over here in flagship-land, i ABSOLUTELY would. @MastodonEngineering you should consider setting up something like this and/or diverting more funds from your managed hosting program towards moderation
@alice I really need to get off this instance. But it seems so prohibitively complicated? *wails in fediverse-illiterate*
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