• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      This is the best way because minimal risk and effort for you, and you can always say you didn’t have access to automated tools to do moderation, which is true.

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          1 year ago

          The risk is that they start suing users that act malicious, and this can’t be seen as malicious just incompetent.

          Edit: I don’t see users doing nothing as malicious. I’m talking about the one’s breaking stuff being sued.

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            1 year ago

            Suing unpaid volunteers for not working hard enough? Not a lawyer, but surely you can’t use sue an employee for not working hard enough. Just do a really poor job, don’t moderate well. What are they going to argue?

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                A lawsuit requires them to be breaking a law. Doing a shit or even malicious job at something you volunteered for is not against the law. Mods are not employees of reddit. If the argument is that they’re somehow harming the product, that same argument could be extended to the protestors and shitposters. It wouldn’t hold any water in an actual court.