>>159448I can give you my personal thoughts on this.
At the bottom, of course you have obvious spam, advertisements, illegal content. Basic moderation is removing all of that, and it's usually 100% clear.
Then you have AI generated slop, botposts, basically anything automated designed to look like real posts. These are annoying but might have a pattern.
(spam is easier to deal with on sites that have accounts btw)
Anything from here on out is posted by a human and basically people have to engage with the post if they want to decide to report it, or in the case of moderators choose to delete or keep it. This is basically where it gets political, when mods have to actually consider the content of the post.
Was that person really a nazi or just asking questions? It's hard to tell good faith posts from bad ones, and it's not clear whether or not to keep bad faith posts: for example if a 14 year old edgelord posts something dumb about race, could this be an opportunity to educate people? If not the OP then other people that might see it?
Is socialists censoring pro-capitalist liberal rhetoric a good thing? I mean feds will quickly try to hijack any discourse, but if they aren't feds then explaining is probably better than censoring. It gets difficult here.
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