I made a robot moderator. It models trust flow through a network that's made of voting patterns, and detects people and posts/comments that are accumulating a large amount of "negative trust," so to speak.

In its current form, it is supposed to run autonomously. In practice, I have to step in and fix some of its boo-boos when it makes them, which happens sometimes but not very often.

I think it's working well enough at this point that I'd like to experiment with a mode where it can form an assistant to an existing moderation team, instead of taking its own actions. I'm thinking about making it auto-report suspect comments, instead of autonomously deleting them. There are other modes that might be useful, but that might be a good place to start out. Is anyone interested in trying the experiment in one of your communities? I'm pretty confident that at this point it can ease moderation load without causing many problems.

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[–] auk@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Tell you what. I can respond to this in two different ways. I really don't agree with silencing people who have a different point of view than I do. On other platforms, I've spent a ton of time arguing with conservatives. So much time. It's not unfamiliar to me. I don't think people need to limit their interactions to only the people who are "right," if that makes sense. It's okay for someone to be saying something that I think is wrong, as long as they're open to a conversation about it. I can say where I think some of your sources have a long history of deliberately misleading people, as a way of making the case that they are misleading you, too. I don't view you as the enemy, necessarily, but I do think you're mistaken.

If I'm going to have that conversation with me, then you don't have to agree with me or be nice to me, but I do need you to be willing to hear me out. In exchange, I'll promise to hear you out, too, and take seriously what you're saying, enough to disagree with it honestly and respectfully when I disagree with it. Is that something you're interested in? Because we have about as different a set of viewpoints as you could imagine, but I'm still fine talking with you, and having a real exchange of views.

If you don't want to do that, and just want to emit your viewpoint and belittle other viewpoints until people remove you from the community, then I can respond to you accordingly. But I would prefer to do the first thing. I don't think this is the forum for it, but we can surely find one, and I can spend a while talking with you about the viewpoints you seem to think are getting you censored.

Edit: Grammar