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"Field must be between 3 and 5000 characters long."

it WAS between 3 & 5000 chars, but this is blocking it still??

Now I'm chopping it into pieces, to see if that'll work, to get this feedback available for the dev..

There are a number of gotchas which seem to be missed by the author ( excellent thinker/writer, generally ) of that blog-post..

https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/

Inexperienced mods points: put training-wheels information right there where they need it

As Atul Gawande noted, there are 2 categories of checklists ( book "The Checklist Manifesto": he's the guy who made the UN's surgery checklist )..

• checklists for discussions-between-people/roles which have to happen
• checklists for tasks which have to happen

Knowing this, is there some set-of-checklists which new-mods can have, which takes them no more than 1.5mins to read, & which accurizes their actions, in modding?

the low-karma section, users who downvote too much..

Notice that some have 100.0% of their votes being downvotes, & another has 50.0%??

That, to me, looks like insufficient data-points for statistics to be valid on them!

1 downvote & no upvotes, is 100.0% downvotes, right?

you have to identify how many votes they have cast, in order to be competent to interpret the percentages properly , right?

Oh, this: brigading, or whatever it's called, when a faction rampages somebody with downvotes, to get them punished, for not-groveling-to the faction who decided to rampage on 'em..

That happens.

Not just online, it happens in families, too..

It cannot be accommodated, so therefore the diversity of users who did the downvoting of the user in-question is important..

IF it's some specific subset of users who are systematically abusing people of whatever attribute, THEN it isn't the downvoted who are the problem, it is the down-votERS who are the problem, right?

( as people have noticed, Hitler & Trump both are using law to dismantle civil-society's laws .. this leverage is exactly what I'm talking about, but in a different context: just because a complaint has been filed, doesn't mean that it's the complainer who's good..

Psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, in his book "People of the Lie", identified that when somebody is introduced to him in his professional-capacity, as "the problem", it is routine to note that that person is the identified patient .. but to reserve-judgement until they can figure-out who's telling the truth, see?

This is what I'm holding to be required: see not-just the apparent evidence, see the actual evidence, before judging..

Usually the apparent-evidence is going to be right-enough.

The problem is that when one is being used as a weapon by a gaslighter to harm an already-abused life, the cost of that isn't "minor".

Low-quality communities ( where "karma" is thrown-around like confetti ) have their karma disconnected..

Really, those communities ( the memes communities you identify, e.g. ) do provide a service, so some karma might be in order?

I'm thinking square-root of upvotes, though, or 5th-root of upvotes, or something: find out what fraction actually is fairly proportional for such communities, & let people who cheer the population up have some karma from that..

the number of people in the community would be in the equation I'd use, & so would the number of daily-participants in the community, so that if some community got HUGE, it'd get its karma-equation toned-down more .. but yeah, people who bring smiles onto the lives of the depressed are doing good, as many comments from people throughout such communities, through the years, has shown..

to be continued..