Im noticing two types of comments I would consider problematic increasing lately—poorly thought out or reasoned long posts, and snappy reddit-esque one-line comments. The former are more difficult to filter for, but dealing with the second seems much easier to automate—for example, have a filter which catches any comment below a certain length too be approved manually (potentially with exceptions for established users)
There’s also a general attitude that goes along with that—in general, not reading full posts, nitpicking things to be snarky about, not participating in discussion or responding when someone attempts to engage. Honestly, Id much rather see twenty people making poorly-thought-out longposts that don’t know what they’re talking about, as long as they’re willing to participate in discussion, than an increase of these guys. At least some of the confused but sincere guys can be curious and engaging.
So to that end, I’d like to support moderation that focuses on culling low-effort, failure-to-participate or failure-to-read-the-damn-post. a flag for users who regularly make short comments could be that, or better methods for regular users to flag comments for review for lack of engagement. Or perhaps an automatic flag for how often someone posts once and doesn’t respond to any comments
I do think this is mostly what you meant anyway, I just wanted to point out what exactly i personally are as the issue versus just “underinfomed newbies”.
Im noticing two types of comments I would consider problematic increasing lately—poorly thought out or reasoned long posts, and snappy reddit-esque one-line comments. The former are more difficult to filter for, but dealing with the second seems much easier to automate—for example, have a filter which catches any comment below a certain length too be approved manually (potentially with exceptions for established users)
There’s also a general attitude that goes along with that—in general, not reading full posts, nitpicking things to be snarky about, not participating in discussion or responding when someone attempts to engage. Honestly, Id much rather see twenty people making poorly-thought-out longposts that don’t know what they’re talking about, as long as they’re willing to participate in discussion, than an increase of these guys. At least some of the confused but sincere guys can be curious and engaging.
So to that end, I’d like to support moderation that focuses on culling low-effort, failure-to-participate or failure-to-read-the-damn-post. a flag for users who regularly make short comments could be that, or better methods for regular users to flag comments for review for lack of engagement. Or perhaps an automatic flag for how often someone posts once and doesn’t respond to any comments
I do think this is mostly what you meant anyway, I just wanted to point out what exactly i personally are as the issue versus just “underinfomed newbies”.