Thanks for the feedback! I think moderation is tricky and I’m relatively new at it myself. I’m sad at how long users can get stuck in the queue, and I’d love to improve how fast we resolve moderation questions, but where exactly we draw these lines will probably be a learning process for me, and we’ll continue to iterate on that.
It looks like you submitted the comment on Dec 17, and our facilitator messaged you on Jan 6 (the delay partly being due to people being out for the holidays), and then they approved your comment a little over a week after messaging you. Yeah I agree that this was an edge case, and I don’t think you were being malicious, but I think you could have made your point more productively by, for example, just using “torture”.
I feel that using the rejected content feature would give our team more leeway to be opinionated about shaping the home page of our site (compared to now), and we’d feel somewhat free to reject things that don’t fit the type of discussions we want to see. For example, it looks like LW rejects posts from new users that don’t have a clear introduction. So I think if something is an edge case in the current system, then it would likely get rejected under the other system.
Thanks for the feedback! I think moderation is tricky and I’m relatively new at it myself. I’m sad at how long users can get stuck in the queue, and I’d love to improve how fast we resolve moderation questions, but where exactly we draw these lines will probably be a learning process for me, and we’ll continue to iterate on that.
It looks like you submitted the comment on Dec 17, and our facilitator messaged you on Jan 6 (the delay partly being due to people being out for the holidays), and then they approved your comment a little over a week after messaging you. Yeah I agree that this was an edge case, and I don’t think you were being malicious, but I think you could have made your point more productively by, for example, just using “torture”.
I feel that using the rejected content feature would give our team more leeway to be opinionated about shaping the home page of our site (compared to now), and we’d feel somewhat free to reject things that don’t fit the type of discussions we want to see. For example, it looks like LW rejects posts from new users that don’t have a clear introduction. So I think if something is an edge case in the current system, then it would likely get rejected under the other system.