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Reddit’s replacement mods may be putting its communities at risk — With institutional knowledge seeping out of the site, poor moderation could have real-world impacts as more misinformation is allo... (www.theverge.com)
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Reddit’s replacement mods may be putting its communities at risk — With institutional knowledge seeping out of the site, poor moderation could have real-world impacts as more misinformation is allo...::Reddit’s moderator purge could have real impacts on reliability and information safety as it rushes to replace mods with inexperienced and poorly vetted volunteers, shows a new report.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I don't know, every time I read a headline with the word "could" in it I'm not interested, because there are no facts in it it's just speculation.

  • If my grandma had wheels, she could have been a bike
  • Aliens could change Trumps hair color
  • Reddit could destroy itself
  • Lemmy could be the greatest thing since sliced bread
  • China could collapse
  • Russia could collapse
  • The US could collapse

the list goes on and on.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then read the article and not just the headline. There are various examples of why that's happening.

There’s a canning recipe that’s been allowed to stay up despite the potential to make people sick. A moderator with zero 3D-printing experience joined as a “joke” to replace a mod whose expertise included identifying functional gun printing recipes. A new home automation moderator insists expert knowledge is unnecessary in a subreddit where bad advice can lead to electrocution or compromised cybersecurity.

Your examples are just funny, but when (good) journalists write "could", it means that they have analyzed something and they are predicting its outcome based on the data they have collected. It's not like they're just making stuff up

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