How I picked up my new home
I was a moderator of the largest Apple-related community on G+ with 900k+ members now looking for a new home after Google announced the sunset of the consumer version of Google+ in April 2019.
Here are the main criteria for my final decision.
• Mobility
Computers are out for most of the tasks we do today on the Internet. Social networking is done on mobile devices. Especially young people like to stay tuned while on the go.
I would never join a network
if there is no app (Android / iOS) for it.
• Quality
Quality comes with well-researched content, packed in a nice housing, and provoking fruitful discussions.
It needs moderation
to achieve this admittedly subjective goal.
• Responsibility
We are all responsible for what we do. The Internet is no legal black hole. What you can’t say on your workplace you shouldn’t say on the Internet. People made rules (Etiquettes, Discrimination, Copyright, Fair Use, etc). We all know that there must be someone who takes care about members not abiding by these rules. Young people learn from the elders. They must be educated to keep the planet peacefully running.
Social Media without moderation isn’t social.
Also, Jason Hardy, product manager of MeWe, announced some exciting improvements.
Conditions are complied.
So I found my new home on MeWe.
Feel free to connect to
https://mewe.com/i/thomas.unterstenhoefer
and join my group ‘Apple iThings’
http://mewe.com/join/apple-ithings
Thank you.
Thomas Unterstenhoefer Edward Morbius
ReplyDeleteOkay, let's take a step back.
Google's spam detection tools have, from time to time, given very bad advice. Yes, you could simply hit the "delete" button over and over and not even look at the comments, but given the track record, I always look at the comments now before I personally would hit the delete button on a comment Google marked as Spam.
I think Edward is concerned because we want to know if there are spammers in the community and block them is required, so some transparency as to if you are getting spam alerts would be nice but recognize that we also get comments from people directly. When someone says their posts are deleted and it's not clear why, we investigate.
You started the thread, you have the right to control it from getting spam and we support the information you're sharing. We want good content that helps people make good choices, particularly now that time is short.
Let's try and keep the communication happening and be open to discussions. The mods are here to help and we want as much transparency as possible.
Thanks!
John
John Lewis Thanks for taking your time.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn’t have deleted that comment (I carefully read them all before I take action on my posts) if the commenter wouldn’t already have posted it many times. This is using the clipboard and pasting content to get attention.
I’m a very experienced moderator doing his job alone for two years in a 900k+ member community. I know the rights I have and I know the many ways spammers try to get attention.
Your moderator obviously doesn’t accept that the original poster has some rights a moderator should accept. Using them is necessary and mods should be thankful that some members are not part of the silent majority but take their membership seriously.
(Just have a look at my collection Google+ and you will see what I’m talking about. And btw, Google explicitly asks for the help of members when it comes to take action against spammers, trolls and sickos. You’ll find about 30 posts about moderating a community.)
To make it easy:
I won’t post anymore in this community because a moderator tries to cut the right Google gave me.
Thanks for taking your time.
Thomas Unterstenhoefer I'm sorry to hear you won't continue contributing to this community.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck and sorry for any misunderstanding.
Regards,
John