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dojoteef t1_j8e2m8g wrote

Tbh, it's because I took a step back and haven't been moderating the sub the past week and a half. I've been the one mod doing the majority of the filtering of these posts over the past couple of years and the noise has just been going up exponentially over that time. It's very time consuming and I'm pretty burned out doing it, so I've taken some time away. I brought this up with the other mods before stepping back a bit.

It's probably good to try to get more mods, but I think the majority of the current mods are afraid to hire on new mods that might have a different philosophy of moderating, thus changing the feel of the sub.

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ReginaldIII t1_j8e9sc3 wrote

It's been going downhill for a lot longer than that, and it's not something that can be solved with better moderation.

The people who are engaging with the sub in higher and higher frequencies than before simply do not know anything substantive about this field.

How many times will we have people try to asininely argue about stuff like a models "rights" or that "they" (the model) have "learned just like a person does", when the discussion should have just been about data licensing laws, intellectual property, and research ethics.

People just don't understand what it is that we actually do anymore.

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zackline t1_j92ie5v wrote

> it’s not something that can be solved with better moderation

Didn’t that work pretty well over at /r/covid19?

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velcher t1_j8glba7 wrote

Could ML or simple rule-based filters help us out here?

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