3d ago

RFC: "kicking" posts instead of removing them

(I haven't submitted an official rfc yet, want to see what people think)

This is inspired by Ruqqus, a now defunct Reddit alternative.

The idea is simple:

There is a "global" or "default" community with no topic or extra rules, ~~moderated only by admins~~
Community moderators, when they feel a post is inappropriate for their community can "kick" a post to the global community

The reasoning is as follows: a good amount, probably the majority of posts that are removed by mods, are not removed because they are inappropriate for the site as a whole, but because they are inappropriate for that specific community (off-topic, banned site, low effort, etc.). But currently the only option they have to deal with this is a full blown removal, which is quite frustrating for the poster.

This proposal would allow mods to keep curated communities without needing to do unnecessary removals.

As a bonus, this would create a default community where people can post when they're not sure where to post something. Posts can be later be crossposted into more specific communities.

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Yes.
It has always been a pet peeve of mine that I would find an interesting topic while browsing all on reddit, with a healthy number of upvotes and comments but regardless mods will bluster in and lock it because it's not quite on topic.
Back in the early days of Internet forums when moderators found an off topic post they would move it to the relevant sub , and there would typically be an "Other", "Off-Topic" or "Random" as a catch all.
I've never understood why threaded social media is missing such a basic moderation function.
- There is an open issue for moving posts to a different community which would allow for this functionality. But so far no one has worked on it yet.
  
  It's definitely something we could get on board with over in !android@lemdro.id and shunting app requests etc that belong over in the respective !askandroid@lemdro.id community.
  But I think like @Dessalines said re-writing posts rings true with us because over on reddit, when we got to a post that violated our rules but had already met a threshold of engagement (100 votes / 10 comments) before we got to it left it up (with a sticky comment explaining why) regardless.
  Anyhoo, my 2c and thanks for all your work :)
- Because it abandoned the idea of the site admins being responsible for moderation, in the name of expanding to unmanagable size.
  On Reddit and Facebook, groups do not have a common moderation team, so they lack the right to dump a post in someone else's group.

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