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
@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.
@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.