Automod system

[cottechguy]

I want an automod system added to the forum (like on pokimane server, when you say "leafy" you her banned.) Example:

user1: "insert racial slur"

Automod: "*delete post, add warning point*"

[Spotty]

... Why? Has there been a lot of racial slurs you have seen posted to the forum that have not been removed in a timely manner?

[Srijan Verma]

I feel like forum mods already do a great job at that, and most of the community is sensible enough to not use such slurs , or report a user.

[LogicalDrm]

I think LTT Discord is good example of why that won't work. It's good only on chat rooms where having manual moderation would be too taxing for humans. But since no blacklist is perfect, it would constantly need to be updated and cross-checked against false positives. Just like our spam filters.

[colonel_mortis]

We do have some automod rules for preventing spam, but there is very little non-spam content that gets moderated that we would be able to automate.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

12 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

I think LTT Discord is good example of why that won't work. It's good only on chat rooms where having manual moderation would be too taxing for humans. But since no blacklist is perfect, it would constantly need to be updated and cross-checked against false positives. Just like our spam filters.

And the LTT Discord has issues as well. 
I got removed from the server for using a 3rd party client (got a message from ltt automod), but i was on the offical discord app on my computer

[cottechguy]

I mean, what about times mods are away?

[Skiiwee29]

2 hours ago, cottechguy said:

I mean, what about times mods are away?

even if we're not actively on the forums, there are ways we are notified when reports come in externally when things go down and generally a mod will be around within minutes of new reports on going. Also, if a post gets multiple reports within a short period of time, we do have protections in place that will occur until we manually review. 

[HanZie82]

On 11/15/2021 at 11:10 AM, cottechguy said:

I want an automod system added to the forum (like on pokimane server, when you say "leafy" you her banned.) Example:

user1: "insert racial slur"

Automod: "*delete post, add warning point*"

Have you ever encountered a system where and automod was in place?!
THEY ARE AWEFUL!!!!

 

And also educate yourself with this:

 

 

 

_{So yeah stupid idea, rather have the people themselves be more educated and parents teaching their kids to not be cunts would be a whole lot better.
But then there are racist parents. So maybe we should start there, and only have qualified people become parents.}

[EphraimK]

He just doesn't like the REAL mods. I don't either.

 

 /s

[da na]

Not a great idea. LTT Discord has automod... it isn't great. That's why I spend most of my time on here

[Cool Dude 101]

I see how it could be good for the moderators, but there would be so many issues. 

[BondiBlue]

2 minutes ago, Cool Dude 101 said:

I see how it could be good for the moderators, but there would be so many issues. 

Speaking from experience elsewhere, automated moderation systems can be great, but they can also be a pain to configure properly which leads to more work for the moderators. 

[Cool Dude 101]

Yeah I suppose so, I didn't think of that.

[Skiiwee29]

1 minute ago, BondiBlue said:

Speaking from experience elsewhere, automated moderation systems can be great, but they can also be a pain to configure properly which leads to more work for the moderators. 

This, its way to much a headache and would put a ton more strain on us due to false positives that ALWAYS occur. Have to also remember, we are 100% volunteer, meaning we do NOT have to be here if we don't want to be and have no actual commitment or dedicated times we are required. 

[BondiBlue]

Just now, Skiiwee29 said:

This, its way to much a headache and would put a ton more strain on us due to false positives that ALWAYS occur. Have to also remember, we are 100% volunteer, meaning we do NOT have to be here if we don't want to be and have no actual commitment or dedicated times we are required. 

Yep. A few of the communities I moderate have some sort of automod system in place that will either flag a post based on the number of reports or just go ahead and remove a post for evaluation by a moderator. The problem with removing the posts and waiting for a moderator is that sometimes the notice won't be seen by a moderator for a few days depending on if anyone has been online, and it might be a perfectly good post that was pulled for no reason. 

 

I like the systems that simply alert us to a mass reported post better personally. 

[LogicalDrm]

2 hours ago, Cool Dude 101 said:

I see how it could be good for the moderators, but there would be so many issues. 

Please do elaborate. Considering we already have spam protection and reporting system in place, what would any automatic feature provide for moderation or to community?

[Stahlmann]

From the year of experience i've had on the forum i'd say the mods do a good job as is. I've very rarely ever got to see spam or inappropriate content. That stuff normally "vanishes" within seconds or worst case minutes after the initial post.

 

I doubt an algorithm would be significantly faster. And as the mods seem to not want it either it seems they don't really need it.

 

I think some moderators are machines already, use 6 monitors, run auto-refreshing scrips or something else in that regard.

Or all of the above...