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minus-squareSamus Crankpork@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoGiven the nature of the internet, I feel that spam is a much bigger problem than a potential whistleblower being silenced, and wouldn’t that kind of action show up in the logs anyways?
minus-squareWooster@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAs a former admin, I guarantee no one seriously reads those logs outside of happenstance. It takes the users speaking up to warrant that.
minus-squareabhibeckert@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoThe whistleblower can read (or ask someone to read) the logs and find out who silenced them, then whistleblow that/get get whoever did it defederated. Deleting spam isn’t optional. If you leave it there your community is dead.
Given the nature of the internet, I feel that spam is a much bigger problem than a potential whistleblower being silenced, and wouldn’t that kind of action show up in the logs anyways?
As a former admin, I guarantee no one seriously reads those logs outside of happenstance. It takes the users speaking up to warrant that.
The whistleblower can read (or ask someone to read) the logs and find out who silenced them, then whistleblow that/get get whoever did it defederated.
Deleting spam isn’t optional. If you leave it there your community is dead.