Blog communities can maximize collective energy by aggressively deleting hostile commentary

Evidence

Only comments deemed to be positive by the Kollektive will be left up. The purpose of the site is to build the Kollektive, so comments by those intrinsically hostile to the notion of collectivity or those hostile to the k-punk project per se will be deleted as soon as possible, so as not to waste the energy of the collective on distracting, egocratic nonsense. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2356

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier k-punk chapter(s) on collective organization and the blog as commons, and to ongoing debates about moderation as curation. — connects to: Requiring responders to publish their own posts fostered better discourse than open comments — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2054; Live overlaid commentary builds community while deliberately obscuring shared content — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 289; Consistent crowd-reporting of hate content leads to eventual blocking — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate…, 343 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Aggregated user tags could power optional community-run content filters #qualifies (0.77) — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet, 612
• Consistent crowd-reporting of hate content leads to eventual blocking #exemplifies (0.76) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 343
• Large online forums moderate almost entirely through self-learning algorithms #complicates (0.75) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 342
• Talk itself generates communities and power independent of fixed interests #qualifies (0.74)
• Live overlaid commentary builds community while deliberately obscuring shared content #qualifies (0.72) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 289