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mk · 4641 days ago · link · · parent · post: Buying upvotes with cash on Reddit

I really don't want to get into active moderation like blocking users from your posts. It's one thing to alter what you see, but IMO it's entirely another thing to alter what other people see. As thundara suggests, I don't want to get into a situation where power users are dominating the site.

I am all for enabling a user to filter their own experience, however. So if you are ignoring someone, it would make sense that their comments would drop closer to the bottom in your view of a post.

As for general moderation, if and when we get into that, I'd like it to be as dependent upon user input as possible. Ignoring does give a pretty good metric for that, at least to raise a flag that there might be an issue.

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thenewgreen · 4641 days ago · link ·

I guess I should define established, I would say it's someone that has had a full hub wheel at least once. Not exactly a "power user" scenario. That said, I think the system in place is a good one for posts but it doesn't do anything to prevent someone from trolling every mk post with comments. What If I went to every post you made and commented rudely but not so offensively that it barred me from the site? This could effectively ruin your hubski experience. What, if anything, can Hubski do to prevent this?

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mk · 4641 days ago · link ·

If someone were willing to make that effort, I'd almost be flattered. :)

I'd ignore them, so their comment would sort to the bottom, and if others ignored them, the same would happen. My guess is that they would run out of steam eventually. If we don't take the good with the bad, then we are left to determine which is which.

If it became real problem, I'd probably consider some other approaches, but I don't think civility can be enforced very well.

+discuss+discuss

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thenewgreen · 4641 days ago · link ·

Thanks, I hadn't realized that if you ignore someone their comment falls to the bottom of your feed. That's great, I think it would essentially solve the problem. Like you said, they would run out of steam, so long as people aren't responding to them and rewarding their idiocy. This can happen when you get more than one on a feed.

You're right about civility, it can't be enforced.