The Dangers of Comment Moderation

One of the only websites about movies that does not subscribe to woke thinking, Awards Daily, recently announced that they would enforce comment moderation:
A Note on Comments and Comment Moderation — Awardsdaily

It’s unclear what this means, but I think comment moderation is pretty awful for film lovers, and I don’t want the people who run entertainment sites to have to take on extra hours and time costs moderating stuff on our behalf.

If we want a better site, contribute to a gofundme to hire a couple part-time moderators. Otherwise, we just need to accept that people aren’t all going to agree or have the same standards of what’s proper.

I hardly think there’s any danger in words (I know, people boycotting JK Rowling agree, and I kind of understand) on their own accord. Furthermore, we run into the danger that everyone has their own definition of what’s proper or improper to say. The alternate — the community itself can censure (through negative feedback) where the line is — is not a bad solution.

I’ve found that people overly concerned with political correctness in certain commenting communities have had major problems with dogmatism and groupthink. I’ve been ganged up on many of those forums and kicked out of town because I think differently from them about issues of representation, issues of white privilege, and whether minorities should be championed in movies for the sake of correcting the past.

Of course, my life was so enriched by the IMDB forums, and then they were shut down because people thought that having no forums was better than having forums with just a few hateful comments.