Substack Notes moderation: manton.org

@manton “There is little need for content moderation because readers are actively choosing to subscribe to a writer, not stumbling on random viewpoints that may be offensive or controversial.”

Moderation should still be applied right? Regardless of how you subscribe to a writer, they should not be platforming hate speech. Would/do you moderate that here on blog published content?

@mcg I phrased that poorly and should have said “less need”. We do not allow hate speech and it’s covered in our community guidelines. But there are other things that might be a gray area on someone’s blog but much worse in the timeline or targeted at specific people in replies.

@manton I don’t like the fact that to follow somebody’s Notes, you have to subscribe to their entire Substack presence. There are several Substackers whose newsletters I’m reading in RSS. I’d like to see their Notes too but I don’t want to receive emails that duplicate the RSS posts. I really hope they change this.

@manton Thanks for clarifying, I assumed that is what you meant but wanted to be sure. I do agree that the moderation requirements on a social network vs a publisher/subscriber relationship are different.