Punaperson - There's an article in today's Washington Post about a social media site in Vermont called Front Porch Forum that reminds me of what Punaweb was at one time: civil, informative, and very often funny. ( Sorry about not being able to provide a link, but if you search for it, many links come up. )
Sharing a bit of internet magic - you can add archive.is in front of many paywalled urls to get access via the Internet Archive. e.g.
leads here.
Punatang - I'm just going to venture a guess that they don't allow trolls to have a months long reign of terror before taking corrective action.
From the article - "The secret to its success: move slowly and moderate heavily. [...] Twelve of its 30 full-time employees spend their days reading every user post before it’s published, rejecting any that break its rules against personal attacks, misinformation or spam. [...] If you don’t set and strongly enforce rules for how people can talk to each other, things will get ugly in a hurry.[/i]
Wowza - high quality, high cost. Interesting and successful model (thanks for sharing!) but may be hard to replicate here, unless Rob starts charging for ads and/or deputizing a lot more moderators.
Sharing a bit of internet magic - you can add archive.is in front of many paywalled urls to get access via the Internet Archive. e.g.
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https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/10/front-porch-forum-vermont-research-new-public/Punatang - I'm just going to venture a guess that they don't allow trolls to have a months long reign of terror before taking corrective action.
From the article - "The secret to its success: move slowly and moderate heavily. [...] Twelve of its 30 full-time employees spend their days reading every user post before it’s published, rejecting any that break its rules against personal attacks, misinformation or spam. [...] If you don’t set and strongly enforce rules for how people can talk to each other, things will get ugly in a hurry.[/i]
Wowza - high quality, high cost. Interesting and successful model (thanks for sharing!) but may be hard to replicate here, unless Rob starts charging for ads and/or deputizing a lot more moderators.