It’s lazy. It has no place in quality communities. If you are a mod and feel so overwhelmed unable to keep up with the posts in your communities, then you need to please consider bringing on other quality mods and /or step down and let someone else do the job to help you.
/rant
Edit: as was pointed out, my post was overly negative toward mods. I apologize. I should’ve waited before posting this so I didn’t come across as inflammatory.
You must log in or register to comment.
If a tool could be used to detect and remove CSAM and ban users then it should. No one should need to see that kind of stuff. It leaves a mark.
Some of us need sleep sometimes.
That’s why you bring on other mods to help.
Aren’t that many people, who are willing to be mods, would make for good ones, are interested in the community, speak English, or god forbid another language if needed, have enough free time, and are in the right timezone to make up for the lack of others’ availability.
Dude, you don’t mod any comms yourself. There’s dozens of comms that need mods, pick one up and contribute.
Automod is just a tool like anything else, it’s how you use it that matters
I don’t think you understand what automod actually did. Nor what the currently available lemmy version does.
Last time I made a post on Reddit, the automod hid and locked my post for advocating something my post wasn’t advocating and then responded to my post saying my post was a duplicate, which it was not. The automod also DM’d me to tell me I would be banned shortly if I didn’t take action quickly. I messaged a(n ostensibly) flesh-and-blood mod who agreed with me and unlocked/unhid my post, but by that point, the post was old enough that it wouldn’t get any significant amount of responses.
I’m not necessarily entirely against automods, but if we do end up with automods, they definitely need to be more judicious than the ones on Reddit. (And they are, from what I’ve seen. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that an automod on Lemmy has done something and thought “that automod is out of line.”
Maybe just as a rule of thumb, I’m thinking maybe automods shouldn’t delete/lock/hide posts. The whole automatically responding saying “your post is a duplicate” is pretty infantalizing as well. But I could certainly see use in an automod that flags any posts for review that mention such-and-such keywords.
And maybe I could even be convinced that automods actually deleting/locking/hiding posts (or even banning users) could be a good thing in some cases as long as they err on the side of false negatives rather than false positives.
Anyway, I guess all that to say that I’m broadly sympathetic to having concerns about automods. Though “it’s lazy” isn’t really my objection to them. And I don’t think talking smack about mods is exactly good PR for your opinion. (The communities I mod are all pretty chill and modding really doesn’t take up any significant amount of my time, but I’m all for making mods’ jobs easier.)
