> the loosely moderated site
Was Parler really loosely moderated? I never used it, but I heard stories about some pretty heavy handed moderation. They were famously quick to ban people for perceived trolling.
Was Parler really loosely moderated? I never used it, but I heard stories about some pretty heavy handed moderation. They were famously quick to ban people for perceived trolling.
This is obviously flawed, because juries would vote innocent comments not supporting the mainline parler views to be extremely rulebreaking, and vote death threats (+doxxings, etc) that aligned with mainline parler views to be OK. In some ways it’s a great example of why pure community-led moderation doesn’t really work.
So the moderation was either extreme or near nonexistent depending on what political views were being expressed.
He might be wrong about a great many things, but he was right about this. Intolerance (under the guise of "cancel culture") is a result of growing tribalism. Two parallel cultures fighting for supremacy.
That jury is fundamentally a great idea (that's why we use juries today). The only problem is the culture of intolerance.
Parler's jury is just a representation of that intolerance just like their users being kicked off Twitter was a representation of intolerance from the other side.
Unfortunately, this intolerance has become a part of culture and inevitably flows downstream into intolerant politics. If the intolerance doesn't stop, separation or war has always been the result. I fear that people on both sides won't see this until it is too late to prevent.
Trump only gained a following because of resistance to the progressive movement.
Sounds like here.
What makes you believe it then? Anyway, that sub bans people only for violent threats and such, but opposing viewpoints are downvoted a lot. They even have some pro-Trump mods on their team who can see and reverse mod actions including bans.
Anyway you can try an experiment if you care, post on there (with a new account if needed) very partisan stuff, but don't advocate for violence, and you'll find yourself not banned.
Ha! I regularly see posts from people who were banned for saying perfectly benign things on /r/politics, and what they were banned for.
"Do not violate the Mission Statement. (We provide a place on Reddit for conservatives, both fiscal and social, to read and discuss political and cultural issues from a distinctly conservative point of view.)"