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 :)
A lot of times āmisinformationā just means somebody didnt like the content lol
In that direction reddit-tier moderation liesā¦tread carefully while this place is small and agile enough to change.
Excellent point. Reddit is all about one narrative. You could site multiple undeniable facts proving someone wrong, but over there itās not about facts.