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@saxnot Agreed, you cant. But if a user is found to be giving clearly dishonest translations that would therefore result in moderator action.
So that can be easily addressed.
Do we really want to have a new moderator for every new language. Having as many moderators as there are people doesnt seem viable.
As for relying on people to report, in theory that sounds reasonable, in practice that isnt what happens.
easily 95% of the things i moderate are things I find after 12+ hours that no one ever reported, usually even very obvious offenders, nudity, advertisements, etc. People dont report it for a few reasons
First the average user doesnt know enough about the rules to know when to report. Second they feel like a burden reporting it like they are complaining. Thirdly they assume that content is allowed if its around and not noticed on an instance that isnt very active.
But most importantly most people wont join a timeline riddles with ads and spam and stick around and be proactive about reporting in the hope it cleans it up. By the time a user reports it it is too late.
Think of it like email. Would you be ok with an email service that does absolutely nothing to pre-emptively prevent spam before you see it? If it relied entierly on your own blocking of servers **after** you identify spam in order to prevent it. Of course not, its the same here.
The end result is usually not that people will report it, but rather people will simply leave the server and go to a place where the timeline isnt filled with spam in the first place.
