Beaulac’s is a familiar narrative on Reddit, where much of the rule-making and enforcement happens from the bottom up and varies between subreddits. This quasi-democratic approach to content moderation sets Reddit apart from most other major social media platforms. Unpaid moderators write rules for each subreddit and then use tiplines, automated filters and manual oversight to help enforce them. And according to Rob Allam, a moderator on the insult comedy subreddit “RoastMe”, they do so without adequate training or support from Reddit. That is: Can democracy, or at least something like it, work on the Internet?

Source: The Star March 02, 2021 07:30 UTC