Please check our community page to see if we may have achieved what it was you were looking for us to avoid. As for the echo chamber affect, that will be caused by the user not our site. I will be posting a snippet of our LiveStream this morning as soon as I can to our community page. Please be patient with me as I am working on some new features for the site.
Pleas note, we I have brought this converstation to our admin team, and we have, we hope, found a way to mitigate your concerns you brought up. Please go to the !KAOSnow@lemmy.zip community to see these changes so as to now take this up in this community. Please ask any questions or voice any concerns you may have. Your opinion matters to us.
So we had our meeting this morning and made changes to the way it is handled. Please see !KAOSnow@lemmy.zip to see these changes.
we're not putting a minority or majority issue in place. We had a meeting this morning, like we do every Sunday. To help mitigate this issue we have removed the ability to reply to posts directly. All opinions posted will not have reply ability by anyone, except Moderators or administration. And that will only be used if/when necessary. We want everyone to be able to voice their opinions without having to put up with people arguing with them on the forum. This was decided among the founder, myself, and our co-founder. We are also updated the description of KAOS and I will be making a post in our community regarding this.
Unfortunately you are correct with your last paragraph, and we are open to ways to help broach this issue.
I do agree a lot of the free speech forums did turn into massive echo chambers. But as far as I can tell it was because of lack of proper moderation and showed that the site admins and moderators were directing the conversations to that end.
Since we, meaning the people who participate as registered users, have it in our by-laws that we are apolitical and don’t choose left or right topics. We believe in the people having a voice and being heard. If you don’t like a post you don’t have to reply, we have a ranking system that will be tied into upvotes and downvotes on the subject matter. We do ask that you read the post before mashing upvote or downvote of course.
Actually I have moderated this groups. I knew coming in Thai wouldn’t be easy, but I love a good challenge.
As. Said in another comment, people complain the loudest and are quiet when there is no complaint.
I agree, we need to get the quiet ones more involved. If you have any ideas that would help accomplish that I’m up to listening. You can even post that in the !KAOSnow@lemmy.zip community.
All identifying info is sha256 hashed and is not available, even to the administration. We also don’t ask for any identifying information other than email address, and that can be a throw away mail if they want.
We are taking this into consideration and are doing everything possible to mitigate that. Hell, you don’t even have to use your real name, and the only people who see the up addresses are administration, which is me and our co-founder. This info is only for security reasons which require banning an account.
If you put any identifying information on your post, then that’s all on you not us. Hell we don’t even show what state or country you’re from.
The moderation we are talking about revolves around not changing the person post.
If it’s not acceptable, such as bots posting, which we are in the process of setting up on the website, CSAM, doxxing etc are to be instantly removed and banned by IP address as well as email address.
We have taken those issues into consideration and are constantly working towards that end.
As for the bigot part, everyone is a bigot about something whether they know it or not.
There is a difference between modifying the content in a post and removing it al together.
We want people to see the true you, not some canned response/opinion that has been given to you by the source, but rather your own unbiased opinion on the matter. Which means you better do research and educate yourself on the topic before posting. Like I said in other replies, you need to provide reliable sources of information, generally at least 2 of them, but more is better. The intent is to prevent an echo chamber effect. We also have a living constitution we are working on that allows changes as needed to help mitigate these problems, and all the votes are voted on by registered users, not the administration of the institution.
We aren’t looking for your concern, because we do have moderation in place. Now answer this, why should they not have an opinion? Doesn’t make it right, but we do want to be inclusive for everyone regardless of their outlook on things.
Besides, if enough people actually downvotes the person, it will help teach them about how wrong they are in the subject. People with the right attitude about this will help drown out the recklessness of these haters.
We also require links to sources that back their belief. These have to be reliable sources such as media websites and government websites.
I won’t, they can bitch and moan all they want. It’s a them problem because they don’t want to hear the truth that disagrees with their standing.
They can yell, call me names or anything else. They want to dox me, let them it just shows how weak they really are.
May I DM you to answer the last two paragraphs on your post.