There are two features I'd love to see #MastoDev put on the long term roadmap.
1. The ability to block an entire instance.
2. A user reputation system where users can set a rep score below which users are automatically hidden.
This would help to solve a lot of the old harassment / shitty marketing problems from birdsite.
@whatthegeek I think the issue with 2 is that it can be abused with dogpiling and automating stuff like that is usually really bad.
Number 1 is spot on tho
@whatthegeek I mean, I get that part, but it just seems easy to abuse?
I.E. some assholes from a channer instance decide they want to mess with someone in a marginalized group, they can all agressively change the rep.
Then other people won't even see the victim.
It's a lot like Randi Harper's Blocklist on the birbsite
@spiderrobotpig Good point. Perhaps adding a system that recognizes "heat" so to speak could solve this? Like, if the algorithm detects a massive influx of negative rep, maybe it takes that into account when determining rep score? Though I guess that could be gamed too.
@whatthegeek I think in instances like harrassment, the only effective way is to have an actual diverse staff checking out the posts in questions tbh.
There's no effective way to automate it that won't be gamed by shitty people.
@whatthegeek @spiderrobotpig the issue is, imagine all the members of antipizza.club all decide to lower the rep of someone who's say, an admin of pizza.love
if they're big enough, they can all simply bring that person down to nil
@b @whatthegeek Yeah exactly. And then that person would be basically invisible in Federated because people are assholes.
@spiderrobotpig @whatthegeek @b agree with all of the concerns above (though 1 should absolutely happen!). i think some sort of community moderation system, akin to league of legend's tribunal, could work really well here.
(i research online harassment, so if there's anything i can do to be helpful, let me know!)
@b @spiderrobotpig WHAT KIND OF MONSTER WOULD BE ANTI PIZZA??
Seriously though, the more I think about it, it'd have to be seriously complex to work as intended. It'd need to recognize "heat" and also it'd need to recognize the quality of the source of a rep vote, and even then it could probably still be gamed one way or another.
@whatthegeek @b Yah, automation for antiharrassment is very complex
@spiderrobotpig That's exactly why I threw in the bit about a user defined autohide value for rep score. Put the threshold in the hands of the user, and they can set a value prohibitively high for dogpiling.