hate twitter, but this is something its community notes gets right. it takes all of two clicks for us to see a removed comment and when itās āReason: misinformationā that does nothing to combat the misinformation.
like you donāt have to link articles for obvious stuff like antivaxx shit (though thatās appreciated). but when itās like deep lore on political parties or terrorist groups, or when the comment is like 80 paragraphs long āreason: misinformationā doesnāt really cut it and doesnāt inform the community of what specific point(s) of information were false.
for all but the most egregious misinformation (such as those encouraging or threatening harm, which should be modded anyway for those reasons), if you canāt link an article in the modlog itās almost better to leave the comment up and let your community do a paragraph by paragraph fact check for you. otherwise itās just kind of festering out there unchecked, your servers are still hosting the misinformation, just in modlog form.
i think giving info correcting links was more common in the past so no idk why itās uncommon now. hoping this can be some friendly constructive criticism :)
Disagree on account of Brandoliniās Law
Donāt let bad faith liars drag you down.
also fair.
a mod here suggested forcing users to cite dubious claims which i do like the vibe of. puts the labor of research on the potential perpetrator.
Sourcing just shifts the problem to having to verify the source though. Antivax people could easily cite thousands of sources. Weād know there bullshit, but some mod would be stuck needing to vet them.
Itās easy for common misinformation like antivax, but more unusual claims could easily be left around just because they have something seemingly relevant linked.
I donāt disagree with the idea, it just isnāt enough of a fix and would still require a lot of work.