online harassement - blocklists

[DavidBruant]

Online Harassment and Content Moderation: The Case of Blocklists https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~sjhaver3/blocklists.pdf

[DavidBruant]

My take-aways from this article:

• overall, the experience of blocklists is good
• socially curated blocklists have less false-positive than algorithmically curated ones
• governance over who is added to the blocklist and who isn't is complicated
  • there is a topic around "appeal processes"
• section "Improving blocking mechanisms"
  • "Using hybrid blocklists"

This mechanismcould also be adapted to improve the accuracy of blocklists that are curated for purposes other than addressing harassment, e.g., spam blocklists.

• section "Improving blocking mechanisms"
  • "Making blocklists more transparent"
  • "Designing to avoid blocking contagion"

Ostrom writes that “graduated punishments ranging from insignificant fines all the way to banishment,applied in settings in which the sanctioners know a great deal about the personal circumstances ofthe other appropriators and the potential harm that could be created by excessive sanctions, may befar more effective than a major ne imposed on a first offender”

• Building “understanding mechanisms”