> Also classical forums dealt with spam just fine.

Err... well, no, it was always a big problem, still is, and is made even more so by the technology of our day.

Not really? On something like Xenforo2, there's a setting that makes a new account's posts invisible until that account is manually approved by a mod - in conjunction with the spam prevention tools - https://xenforo.com/docs/xf2/spam/#content - we really don't need to do much work.

Because all new accounts need to be verified by an actual human, we can filter out 99% of spam before other users see it, and between a dozen mods for a community of 140k people we only need to spend ~15 minutes a week cleaning out spam.

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nradov 2 days ago | parent [-]

So then you end up with power tripping mods who abuse their position to push certain narratives. In some cases we've even seen foreign governments paying mods on popular sites such as Reddit to push their propaganda.

	▲	mid-kid 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You mean like how the current twitter owner tweaks the algorithm to push his narrative? This is why there was never one big forum, and there never should've been.
	▲	camgunz 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is a problem with centralization, not with mods.