Elections Canada has released this resource with some common bits of false or misleading content about elections on social media: https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=dis&document=index&lang=e

We plan on pinning this resource, and we are proposing the following rules:

  • Posts or comments with inaccurate or misleading information from this list will be removed, and users are encouraged to report them
  • Repeatedly posting such content will result in a ban from the community until April 28 (at a minimum)

So far we haven’t noticed any serious issues, but we want to get ahead of anything that might come up

  • OtterOPMAEnglish
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    1 day ago

    That’s fair, can you link some of the posts? You can also DM me, or @[email protected]

    There isn’t much brigading since it gets dealt with, but it’s not impossible

    • AwkwardBroccolli@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      I am new here. I ma basing my comment on observations I have seen in reddit. Please take my advice with the skepticism it requires as I don’t understand how moderation in lemmy works.

      My observations based on moderating subreddits have been to institute blanket bans on people who are active on extreme right subreddits and extreme left subreddits. This helps in clearing the brigading and steers conversations towards neutrality.

      • OtterOPMAEnglish
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        1 day ago

        We might need that in the future, but for now I think we have enough moderators to users to deal with brigading and bad faith arguments when it happens. So far users have been excellent about reporting it to us

        I also don’t love doing blanket bans based on participation alone. Sometimes people comment on content to call it out, and without following the thread carefully and being familiar with the topic, it’s hard to tell who’s arguing for what. That being said, if it’s clear that someone is a problem in other communities, I think it makes sense for mods or admins to preemptively ban them.

        • AwkwardBroccolli@lemmy.ml
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          1 day ago

          Blanket bans have sometimes helped me in the past. Lemmy IMO is not at the scale where that would be necessary. A contextual evaluation can still work for lemmy. Your solution of moderating it individually is the right one in this case.