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For example a political post in s/nopoliticshere can be moved to s/politics by the mod of s/nopoliticshere.

This accomplishes several crucial things:

1) Prevents censorship (and drama) by not removing the content. The same thread exists, just in a different sub and still shows in s/all.

2) Grows niche subs. Maybe nobody goes to s/politicalmemes but they will if they like the content that gets moved there from s/funny.

3) Keeps content relevant to the sub in two ways - subs get relevant content imported from other subs, irrelevant content gets removed from the other sub.

Discussing this in IRC the main concern was abuse. A mod can dump a bunch of posts into other subs. A potential safeguard would be for mods to disallow transferred content from other subs. When another mod tries to transfer content there they get an error and have to choose a different sub. And of course the receiving sub can just transfer the thread again if they wish if they allow transferred content.

There still has to be a full deletion option for illegal content, but I think those instances are few and can be handled through an admin reporting system.
For example a political post in s/nopoliticshere can be moved to s/politics by the mod of s/nopoliticshere. This accomplishes several crucial things: 1) Prevents censorship (and drama) by not removing the content. The same thread exists, just in a different sub and still shows in s/all. 2) Grows niche subs. Maybe nobody goes to s/politicalmemes but they will if they like the content that gets moved there from s/funny. 3) Keeps content relevant to the sub in two ways - subs get relevant content imported from other subs, irrelevant content gets removed from the other sub. Discussing this in IRC the main concern was abuse. A mod can dump a bunch of posts into other subs. A potential safeguard would be for mods to disallow transferred content from other subs. When another mod tries to transfer content there they get an error and have to choose a different sub. And of course the receiving sub can just transfer the thread again if they wish if they allow transferred content. There still has to be a full deletion option for illegal content, but I think those instances are few and can be handled through an admin reporting system.

9 comments

[–] Polsaker 4 points (+4|-0)

We could test this by enabling post transfers only between defaults
[–] PMYA 1 points (+1|-0)

I think this is a great idea. That eliminates people being pissed at their content being moved out of defaults, and will sort content better.
[–] Violentlight 3 points (+3|-0)

Should have something on the post saying where it came from. The submitter should get mail saying where the post went as well.
[–] ashekchum 2 points (+2|-0)

Maybe just shove it to s/whatever may be esier.
[–] [Deleted] 6 points (+6|-0)

I'm sure that's where a LOT of content will wind up. Which is fine. There could also be a dedicated spam sub like s/spam for that content as well. But if you don't allow mods to transfer to the niche subs I think you miss out on a lot of the benefit for this feature.
[–] ashekchum 3 points (+3|-0)

It dose require mods to know about and understand niche subs
[–] [Deleted] 4 points (+4|-0)

Well half the time users will just point out the niche subs asking people to repost there. Mods will learn the relevant niche subs I think from dealing with repeat issues. For most subs I think the modwork should be pretty repetitive.
[–] PMYA 2 points (+2|-0)

A potential safeguard would be for mods to disallow transferred content from other subs.

I think this is a good feature, to just be able to turn it off, but perhaps accepting transfers would also be a helpful feature.

I do think this could cause problems though to be honest, ones that we can't even foresee. People are going to be pissed if one of their posts is moved from a default to a non default, because it will get less exposure, for example.
[–] [Deleted] 3 points (+3|-0)

They might be pissed, but less pissed than they would be if the thread was deleted.

You could also allow subs to block transfers from particular mods but that might require more time than this feature warrants during early stages of development. Then again, I still don't think abuse will be a problem until the userbase grows to at least Voat levels so maybe don't worry about disallowing transfers at this point. For this size, simply re-transferring content should be sufficient for a while.
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