• Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think that’s a fair thing to add on a Reddit-like site. You’re posting to a community stewarded by other people. It means people could post highly controversial and objectionable opinions and then just pre-emptively de-facto lock the thread, preventing others from engaging with it. It sort of has the same consequences as the block function on Reddit has now where you can just block the other account replying to you to force the last word.

    Now in the event that Lemmy/Piefed incorporates profile posting, self-posting, then absolutely - that sort of screening makes sense.

    • seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It means people could post highly controversial and objectionable opinions and then just pre-emptively lock the thread, preventing others from engaging with it.

      I guess I think they should be able to do that. If it’s detrimental to the community, then that is the mod’s job. Also ideally, some type of upvote/downvote system would bury said post after enough people downvoted it.

      • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I think this shifts additional burden onto community moderators who don’t want that kind of behaviour in their community.

        Also ideally, some type of upvote/downvote system would bury said post after enough people downvoted it.

        This possibly would happen, of course.