So, you're against censorship...

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It's an admirable ideal to be against censorship, you won't be accused of suppressing ideas, right?

At the same time you get this:

And this:

Really? It's not the worst example I could find

...and I could give you the examples of this the whole day. But the point is... moderation is a thing. Not everyone finds the poems about peeing on people interesting and not every idea deserves to be spread. Sometimes this kind of "art" should go where it belongs.

Ideas need to fight for their right to be heard.

Though, lately it seems to people that all of their ideas are great and people are obliged to give them the platform.

We're not removing these. (Update: After a ton of user reports, we've hidden them, they are still available at the author page) At the same time, obviously we're not happy with them either. They're not "art" as their owner claims, they're just personal vendetta, because his "Post-Roger Sex Disorder" article wasn't given front page space (because there's a personal attack inside the article). But the poems are just distasteful, but not illegal or personal attacks, so we're not removing them.

At the same time we're thankful to the author @kos for pushing us towards thinking about this problem sooner, before it becomes a real problem. Right now it's just a nuisance.

We've got some wonderful ideas about how to structure our site better from many members of the r/btc community and we're going to explore them in due time, hopefully in a week or so, because currently we have more important thing to do, that has something to do with this list: Bitcoin Cash: The People.

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So, we've got tons of report about the "poems", so we've removed them from the main page and topic pages, they're still available on author page for anyone that wants them: https://read.cash/@kos

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User's avatar Read.Cash
5 years ago

You could keep stories online but delist them from the homepage. Readers can choose themselves who they want to follow.

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User's avatar BigBlockIfTrue
5 years ago

Yes, that's the big plan, but as usual the devil is in the details.

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User's avatar Read.Cash
5 years ago

I think emergent reasons have said this before: user curation is a possible solution. Let people follow eachother, and use the people you follow as sorting mechanic.

One setup would be something like a two-tier content gateway: The first tier is "all articles that me and those I follow have voted on, sorted by the sum value of the votes". The last tier is "all other articles, sorted by the sum of all peoples vote".

This way, as soon as anyone I follow vote on something, it immidiately ends up above all the random content.

This setup doesn't help the platforms default page for non-logged in users though.

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User's avatar JonathanSilverblood
5 years ago

Yes, the default setup is one thing that we need to think through, but also your friends probably have voted up thousands of articles, if they all wind up higher than random content - then you'd never see any of the new articles (and they too), since all new articles will be at position #1000+. So, it needs some kind of a mix.

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5 years ago
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