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What is the best moderation system for a social platform? (programming.dev)
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One of the main features of my site will be Discourse-style trust levels, the higher your trust level, the more moderation privileges you gain. I'm also considering either a jury system, where multiple users collaborate on moderation decisions, or a meta-moderation system, where users can vote "fair" or "unfair" on moderation actions taken.

Someone mentioned to me in another post that Bluesky also has a very good moderation system, but the best one I've found so far is Discourse. What I really like about it is that you earn trust levels by reading posts, not by taking moderation actions. I definitely don't want to gamify moderation the way Stack Overflow did, that was the worst I've ever seen.

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[–] 0 points 3 months ago

By what criteria do you say that? You might be right, but without any qualification for how one might be better than another, it's as useful as saying "purple is better than yellow".

But ultimately, you're looking for a moderation paradigm and don't owe me or anyone else a criteria or explanation for what you ultimately choose. It merely means that the question as posed is unanswerable, no different than "why is green the best color?".

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