Timeline for Require questions about the Holocaust to receive moderator approval before publishing
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| Mar 5, 2019 at 2:41 | comment | added | LangLаngС | "To get this data"… I agree on your impression regarding ratio of questions. But the data/transparency angle is crux. Mods seem less interested in doing a hard analysis on this. Staff seem to be pressurable into taking action if a twitter mob shows up, but not when users start to 'have ideas' (as per the usual voting on metaSE). Even if a few more users like Andrew start analysing their flags and share the data somewhere, it'll never approach the level of insight staff could have&share on this. I find it a gripe that this resembles so often 'security thru obscurity' in principle. | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 1:49 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | I’ve added my analysis answering this objection. (Edited version of an earlier comment) | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 0:45 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | I have just added to my question an analysis of what proportion of problematic content consists of holocaust denial trolling. | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 2:53 | comment | added | user11643 | @Andrew Regarding offensive content being deleted and perpetrators punished, that's not what you're advocating, as that's already done. You're advocating that there be automatic actions only for this topic, precisely because you find it so offensive. That is special pleading. - I haven't looked through my flags, but we seem to have the opposite experience. | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 2:43 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | I understand that you concede that, in absolute terms, there is a significant amount of bad-faith Holocaust denial posts, but you question whether it is a significant proportion of problematic posts. I can’t give you precise figures, but I’d say it constitutes a majority of successful “hate speech or spam” flags I generate, and a non-trivial proportion of all flags I generate. | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 2:32 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | Treating bad-faith posts containing Holocaust denial differently from, say, bad-faith posts about the moon landings is not special pleading per se. Stack exchange treats “offensive content” (along with spam) as a reason to delete content, and also to punish the poster more severely, so the community has decided that offensive content is something to treat differently. If I was explicitly advocating that we should treat Holocaust denial differently from Armenian genocide denial on the grounds that Holocaust denial is offensive, then that might be special pleading. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 23:50 | history | answered | user11643 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |