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hate twitter, but this is something its community notes gets right. it takes all of two clicks for us to see a removed comment and when it’s “Reason: misinformation” that does nothing to combat the misinformation.

like you don’t have to link articles for obvious stuff like antivaxx shit (though that’s appreciated). but when it’s like deep lore on political parties or terrorist groups, or when the comment is like 80 paragraphs long “reason: misinformation” doesn’t really cut it and doesn’t inform the community of what specific point(s) of information were false.

for all but the most egregious misinformation (such as those encouraging or threatening harm, which should be modded anyway for those reasons), if you can’t link an article in the modlog it’s almost better to leave the comment up and let your community do a paragraph by paragraph fact check for you. otherwise it’s just kind of festering out there unchecked, your servers are still hosting the misinformation, just in modlog form.

i think giving info correcting links was more common in the past so no idk why it’s uncommon now. hoping this can be some friendly constructive criticism :)

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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 13 hours ago

There's nowhere on the internet saying that you don't actually kill kittens as a hobby. Guess I can just said that wherever I want because can't be prove false.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 5 points 13 hours ago

so this one would be generally modded as harrassment or a personal attack, not misinfo

thanks for the example though

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 13 hours ago

The point I'm trying to make is that the proof should be on the person saying something, not in the person trying to disprove or reporting the dis information. If I say that you kill kittens, it should be me who show proof that that is true.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 3 points 12 hours ago
[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago

Compare “When did you stop beating your wife?”

There are many ways to spread disinformation without making a direct personal attack.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 10 hours ago

that’s a pretty direct personal attack idk man. mods are human beings they aren’t gonna get fooled by framing harrassment as a question.

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