I came from Reddit where they definitely did matter. They don’t seem to hold any real weight here. Is this true for some or all instances? If they don’t matter, what are they for?
I came from Reddit where they definitely did matter. They don’t seem to hold any real weight here. Is this true for some or all instances? If they don’t matter, what are they for?
This is just a block list system. You can already do this now.
It’s a bit more than that but ya, it’s pretty simple and tested technology. But of course the magic is in the network.
It would effectively mean that someone new to a widely used community would potentially immediately run into spam, trolling, abuse and child porn and have to manually block a bunch of users before it looks normal.
There are other ways to get the list than manually creating it. You could get it from a friend or a list providing service. Or both. All or in part. And then optionally tweak it later.
Yes, so you mean people can simply import other users block-lists. That’s the only difference. But if someone new arrived, and didn’t know of one - they would be met with a wall of spam and abuse.
Moreover, I’d also add that websites have a legal requirement to remove child porn.
Your system just converts communities into hashtags. It’s in opposition to what this site is.
We’d have a default list available, optionally pre-installed. But this is obvious.
Yes, That is addressable via this mechanism as well.
It’s simply another way of doing a forum. A better way.