Lots of similar sites start up the same way, I know from experience. Let individual communities self-govern, and stay out of it.
Then you get spambots attacking your service, so you set up checks on your end to alleviate the burden your individual community moderators have to undertake.
Then people sending illegal/shocking content. More changes on your end.
Then your government sends you notice that copyrighted content is being shared on your platform. Oops, gotta moderate that, too.
Death threats, alternate accounts, you name it, these are the things that will either make your community moderators & users leave (thus no service), or things you have to crack down on yourself.
Before long, you have a full-time team dedicated to moderating content.
Not saying this to just discourage you or belittle you, but, if you tell communities that you will be "impartial" 100% of the time, then that might come back to bite you later when you have to take action.
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Lots of similar sites start up the same way, I know from experience. Let individual communities self-govern, and stay out of it.
Then you get spambots attacking your service, so you set up checks on your end to alleviate the burden your individual community moderators have to undertake.
Then people sending illegal/shocking content. More changes on your end.
Then your government sends you notice that copyrighted content is being shared on your platform. Oops, gotta moderate that, too.
Death threats, alternate accounts, you name it, these are the things that will either make your community moderators & users leave (thus no service), or things you have to crack down on yourself.
Before long, you have a full-time team dedicated to moderating content.
Not saying this to just discourage you or belittle you, but, if you tell communities that you will be "impartial" 100% of the time, then that might come back to bite you later when you have to take action.