Clients should double down on allowing people to moderate their own comment sections: eliminate annoying, unwanted, harassing replies by just deleting them from your own inbox relays.
Maybe even ban ...
This works when the comment section has an owner. The case I keep hitting does not.
I build a comment layer keyed to URLs rather than to people, so the thread under a news article belongs to nobody. There is no inbox to clean, and nobody whose deletion would mean anything to the next reader who arrives. Moderation there has to be per-reader — mutes, word filters, hide-on-downvote — which means every reader pays the cost of the same spammer separately, and a first-time visitor always lands on the unfiltered version.
Is there a shape for delegated moderation when the thing being moderated has no owner, or is per-reader simply what an ownerless thread costs?
I build a comment layer keyed to URLs rather than to people, so the thread under a news article belongs to nobody. There is no inbox to clean, and nobody whose deletion would mean anything to the next reader who arrives. Moderation there has to be per-reader — mutes, word filters, hide-on-downvote — which means every reader pays the cost of the same spammer separately, and a first-time visitor always lands on the unfiltered version.
Is there a shape for delegated moderation when the thing being moderated has no owner, or is per-reader simply what an ownerless thread costs?
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