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Do up/down votes matter?
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this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2025
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Oh, that's an interesting idea. It's more nuanced than just relying on upvotes, and sort of democratises the role of moderator! I was thinking maybe reporting would come into it somewhere but I see that the idea you're describing has more depth than I was picturing. I'd be up for using a system like that, I think!
Re this, though:
Is that just admins? Does that decision sort of shift mod responsibility upwards, leaving a good majority of decisions in the hands of the public but ultimately leaving a few powerful people with more global "modding" capability still? Not trying to nitpick or be antagonistic, this sounds like a cool system to use, I'm just trying to understand
However you slice it, if mandates are handed down by the legal authorities, this is the form (black lists, added to local lists, informing filters) it would probably take.
Ah yeah I hadn't thought about legal authorities. I guess that would entail local police forces monitoring Lemmy and blacklisting and subsequently investigating specific users or bots once they post something illegal, which seems not so feasible sadly. But, definitely up for a more democratised system of modding generally!
How are legal mandates handled in lemmy presently?
No idea honestly mate, but what I meant when I brought up the illegality was really that it's usually very disturbing content, which mods catch and remove before loads of people have to see it.
If it's a new account posting that stuff, I don't know how the system we're discussing would prevent loads of users having to see it - altho I guess if those blacklists of users were collaborative and the person or team whose list you've "subscribed" to catch it, maybe that solves the issue?
Ya, something like that. There would be a government man with an account, keeping an eye out. Updating the gov black list as necessary.
That feels a bit dangerous to me, sincerely. Like, what if the government mod of a country decides LGBTQ stuff is blacklisted? How do users protest the legislative blacklist? I guess just switch instance?
About the same as lemmy I guess. The gov will always be an issue