A site to facilitate further discussion of censored posts from other sites
8Basically an idea for a mirroring site that could be created in parallel for "followed" forums already in existence, where this content would be kept up to date but hidden. If moderators on a followed forum deleted a comment or thread, it would be revealed on the anti-site for visibility and commentary on it to potentially continue. Anyone could view the anti-site but for commenting it would need to have authentication and user names. Features for crowdsourced elimination of commercial spam (deletions of spam from the followed forum) would be necessary but other crappy and useless posts would exist on principle.
There's a lack of direct ecommerce application here, I suspect - I'd have to work that in or say that this should mainly apply for ecommerce forums for some reason in order to get it on our roadmap. (not to mention how would it be monetized)
Also: modnazi.com was available so I nabbed it for grins -- my thanks to @beachhead)
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@snapster, Awww...gee what an honor..:-) Seems like an interesting idea. I can see it being especially infuriating to those sites who like to immediately delete any sort of negative comments about thier (lack of, significantly poor?) customer service.
That seems like the sort of "in your face" style that would be typical of the original endeavor. But I'm not sure how you'd monetize it either....who would want to sponsor what would essentially become a site to complain on?
Probably not enough application or interest, but I like the idea of a site becoming a known checkpoint against overzealous moderation on the Internet at large. Idea boneyard +1
Since most moderation - even overzealous moderation is the removal of negative feedback or "offensive" posts, would this mean the majority of the mirrored content would just be disenfranchised posts?
What about posts that are moderated off b/c they are trolls/flames and obscene/ offensive ? I know that is a subjective term. But I think if someone is just saying F**k 10xs ( to note : it can be a good word if circumstances fit ) and degrading other humans/cultures w/ that being the degradation being the sole point. Would Modnazi.com let them stand too ? Just thinking that otherwise you might get some folks posting things on forums just to get them listed on modnazi. I would be interested in seeing moderated away posts about company policies and the kind of stuff that has been mentioned, but I would not like to see a page of the aforementioned rants. I'm NOT saying that it has to be PC. Just saying there's a line. Where do you draw it, if at all ?
TL/DR Do you moderate the moderated posts ? If so, how do you set limits?
Weirdly, with that domain name you'd probably have to actively work not to accidentally build a community of Modern Nazis wanting to hang out.
@ceagee, my thought on moderating the modnazi forums would be for everything to be democratic with full transparency even of the moderated posts. It's probably idealistic but I'm thinking only thing you'd actually remove from the site would be Safe Harbor claims against infringing content. Other material would be "comment hidden, viewable via this link" type of stuff
@dave well damn, isn't that thought depressing. no wonder the url was available :)