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 :)
so this one would be generally modded as harrassment or a personal attack, not misinfo
thanks for the example though
The point Iām trying to make is that the proof should be on the person saying something, not in the person trying to disprove or reporting the dis information. If I say that you kill kittens, it should be me who show proof that that is true.
agree
Compare āWhen did you stop beating your wife?ā
There are many ways to spread disinformation without making a direct personal attack.
thatās a pretty direct personal attack idk man. mods are human beings they arenāt gonna get fooled by framing harrassment as a question.