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Don't ever add automod to lemmy (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by Blinky@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I dislike how to post on like the majority of big subreddit, you have to have X karma, Y account age etc, and those things seem to be enforced by automod. A really good feature of lemmy for me is there being no automod!

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[–] antiworker@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

automod is one of the best ways to prevent right-wingers from using your platform, even requiring you to include "trans rights are human rights" can filter 99% of rightoids

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd say that's probably part of the issue. Devicive mechanisms like that create bubbles / echo chambers.

Whilst I agree with you, I wouldn't enter any phrase with ideological direction like this. Just on principal. I'm not a child. I can do as I please, and I'd simply move on. So then that community doesn't get content from someone like myself, who's going to give some quality discussion (assuming the community is a quality discussion type of community).

I'd say an automod is required. But, how it's used, or abused, will dictate how the community grows.