I think that works ok for general interest pages, but I don’t want to see sonic porn on a page that’s supposed to be about video game news, and I don’t feel like having to manually sort that out myself. People don’t mark stuff correctly all the time. Even 4chan keeps their boards on topic, and they don’t have heavy handed moderation, well at least when I used to go on there as a teen they didn’t.
Paying for the server is one thing.
Managing our conversations is quite another.
The first gives them the power to do the second. Yes.
Their hardware, their rules. If you don’t like it you can always self host
Yes, it gives them that power.
But do we need their management services for a good functioning conversation? That’s my question
I think that works ok for general interest pages, but I don’t want to see sonic porn on a page that’s supposed to be about video game news, and I don’t feel like having to manually sort that out myself. People don’t mark stuff correctly all the time. Even 4chan keeps their boards on topic, and they don’t have heavy handed moderation, well at least when I used to go on there as a teen they didn’t.
So if you had a tool that could filter out the sonic porn for you then you would happily forego having an admin?