• ttmrichter@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    OK, let’s see if I can explain this.

    If you let Nazis stink up a site, normal people will stop going to that site because, get this, normal people don’t want to talk to fucking Nazis. That means you’ve now got a Nazi site. (The same goes for any other kind of antisocial behaviour: tankies, sexual predators, etc.)

    If you don’t moderate your site, your site will turn to shit.

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      10 months ago

      This is how a lot of sites also end up spiralling out of control. Notable in incel communities, you’ll find that the most reasonable part of the group will leave as the core group gets too extreme. It’s like a perpetual motion machine of negativity that constantly ejects it’s most reasonable part to make space for a higher extreme.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah, incels are a really good non-Nazi example of how lack of moderation kills sites and leaves them a wasteland of suction. (Just not the kinds of suction incels want.)