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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023

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If Janny Duty is any indication, I'd say this is false. Most "reporting for disagreement" posts I've seen where targeted against people expressing right-wing viewpoints.

Are you talking about somewhere else where you are a mod? On a typical reddit sub, I can easily believe that's the case, but I'm talking about here.

I'm talking about here. Is Janny Duty, a.k.a "Quincy Needs You!", based on reports?

Mostly, but you only see the cases where we actually respond. The vast majority of reports get ignored, for the reasons I stated.

...I swear I could see comments there before any mod had a chance to respond.

You mean actual reports on a post? If you can see those without being a mod, then someone screwed up.

No, I mean just the comment itself. It happened to me several times that a very recent comment would show up in the Janny Duty queue. Any mod response would only happen hours after I rated it, so I doubt that what I see is filtered by the mods first.

Oh, you're referring to Zorba's volunteer helpers thing. Sorry, I was not clear what you meant by "Janny Duty."

I can't say what subset of posts you've been seeing. From my perspective, there is a group of people who very consistently report posts for partisan reasons (and are also responsible for the majority of reports overall). Most of these reports are targeted at left-leaning posts, though there are definitely some lefties who report anything a right-winger says.

I suppose that's what Zorba's system is supposed to help ameliorate.

I can't say what subset of posts you've been seeing

To me it looks like a random selection of recently reported posts. I was literally just asked to rate two of your comments, so I doubt prior moderator approval is necessary for them to be put in the queue.

Most of these reports are targeted at left-leaning posts, though there are definitely some lefties who report anything a right-winger says.

Usually when something pops up for me to rate, there's some kind of insult in there, either overt or veiled (which was the case in one of your posts I just rated). My initial reaction is usually "Christ, stop being such babies, and don't snitch on everybody you got into a spat with", but I at least know why the post got reported. But sometimes I'm left scratching my head, as to why anyone is asking me to look at a comment. It's not bad, and not high-quality enough to be reported for AAQC. These are almost exclusively right wing, and I file them under reporting for disagreement, but I can't be sure, since I don't see the reports.

I believe Zorba said at one point that the system includes a random sample of (unreported) comments as a sanity check. I've tagged any number of comments as "neutral," and I suspect plenty of those were not human-reported.

To me it looks like a random selection of recently reported posts. I was literally just asked to rate two of your comments, so I doubt prior moderator approval is necessary for them to be put in the queue.

No, it's not. Like I said, I misunderstood you above.

You're presumably seeing a random selection of reported posts, whereas we (right now) see all of them.

It's funny how many of them are amadan's posts. They're not gonna get moderated. Is it one person who's really annoyed?

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