It would be quite wrong to feed them traffic:
Do we also ban the use of Telegram because it is used by criminals, conspirator theorists, etc.and therefore we should not feed them traffic?
Ban links the internets… My grandma told me it’s scary.
This is silly and irrelevant. Read my post; it’s a matter of giving money to a site which carries dodgy content to make more money.
Doesn’t Telegram do that as well…?
Yeah; I used to have a neighbour (he’s dead now) who was buying porn videotapes via the postal system.
Reddit does try to get rid of dodgy content, and it’s a mammoth job because the site is moderated by its users (not the owners) so if the users go rogue, until they get caught…well, they are rogue.
Reddit, as far as the big socialmediaesque companies, is the most transparent of the lot. Banning links to /r/flying for on topic content seems a bit over the top, when Reddit does make an effort to get rid of this kind of content. Any high traffic site with user-generated content will have this problem because you simply can’t have enough staff to watch what happens on the site every second of the day.
I get your drift but disagree with the specifics.
It is true that large sites (say 10k-100k posts a day, which have enough advert income to employ a bunch of 24/7 mods) are relying on users pressing the Report button, but
It is a straight tradeoff between revenue and mod policy. They make that choice. Every “forum” makes that choice intentionally. It positions itself somewhere on the spectrum. I recall one mod (of a UK GA site) explaining to me how much banning personal attacks would damage their revenue (and the context of that exchange were some particularly filthy personal attacks).
I have just discovered I must have led a very sheltered life. I know nothing of Reddit except for a couple of aircraft reviews.🤔
The source of the problem is allowing such a photo to be taken in the first place. That’s the implicit consent. One should expect any photo taken of oneself will one day, somehow, make it into the broader public domain. It is simply too easy to share …. one click. The more explicit the photo, the more likely sooner than later. Even partners can often not be trusted to keep a private photo truly private. Sharing an explicit photo with even one friend is just an invitation to share it with the world. And once out there it can’t be taken back or removed. Not to approve the practice, just the reality.
