Fuck AI

I have an account on Gab and when the website was new, they created a New Zealand group. It had no moderation from about 2019 until 2024. The only problem we had was this one guy who was using software to automate posts all the time. He flooded the group for months (years maybe) until my friend paid for a Pro account and was allowed to become the administrator. We banned the bots and that was it.

We've never had to delete anyone's posts because we aren't trying to artificially steer conversations or ban people for having the wrong opinion. If someone posted a couple of times a day, strongly disagreeing with us and calling us names, we wouldn't even bother to ban them. Maybe block on our individual accounts but we can still click to read their posts even if we're blocking them. Surprisingly, our group is public but we don't need to moderate it. Not with humans or automation. After the CEO of Gab banned "third world" IP addresses from the website, it pretty much stopped spam. Reddit uses all of this tracking technology to give people a social credit score but Gab just bans third world countries and has people who can take a joke.

The image of the hard-working, burnt-out reddit moderator is a joke to me. If there's too much moderation needed, it's probably a control-freak issue or maybe they need to ban certain countries where a significant amount of spam comes from.