5 upvotes, 1 direct replies (showing 1)
View submission: Previewing Upcoming Changes to Blocking
Nothing in this proposal suggests that the admins are going to be monitoring this feature that attentively
True. I suspect that the data from this will be used at a high level to identify patterns of behaviour.
we would run the risk of having people denying the existence of concentration camps in China to denying the Holocaust happened to all sorts of fairly awful content just not get actioned and outright highly upvoted because we can't rely on the users to effectively see these comments and report them.
That's a real concern; I'm not persuaded that those kinds of comments will remain invisible / unreported. I do agree that the impact would be worth getting data on - though how one would make a reliable metric on how reporting is impacted, would begin with studying those doing the reporting (and their reporting activity), who are human subjects. No one is getting an IRB approval for that while volunteering as a Reddit mod for the affected communities.
Comment by snarky_answer at 21/12/2021 at 00:07 UTC
8 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Make there a hard cap on the amount of people blocked. You could make the number large enough to allow people to block who they need. If someone needs some large amount of blocks then that identifies to the admins they might be bad actors or maybe they are someone who is having brigades against their account both of which there should be some sort of interaction whether that is to ban or to send an automated messaged saying something like "we see youre utillzing the block feature at a much greater frequency than the average. Click here to message the admins about any problems you may be having."