“I know a lot of smaller studios really like Discord but with a community our size, the amount of moderation that we would need ... it’s not realistic to have a Discord community that we run.” –Jessica Folsom ▶️communitysignal.com/the-elder-scro…

“There are certain advantages of trying to get buy-in [for your board game] from the community. ... If that’s taken too far, then you get perhaps people that feel entitled to tell you exactly what they want and expect it.” –@mattleacock ▶️communitysignal.com/online-communi…

With BlackPlanet trending, it's a great time to listen to our episode with founder Omar Wasow | @[email protected], chock-full of lessons that could have helped Elon. Listen: communitysignal.com/blackplanets-f…

Elon Musk has made Twitter less safe by gutting the company's moderation, trust, and safety efforts. It's been an all-out assault, weakening people, policy, and product. Ralph Spencer, Omar Wasow | @[email protected], and Dr. Sarah T. Roberts [email protected] join Community Signal to discuss. Listen: communitysignal.com/elon-musks-que…

“There’s no way possible with the cuts [Musk] made that he’s going to be able to do any type of content moderation. … [He] isn’t going to have anybody who remotely begins to know to how to do that [legal compliance and related work].” –Ralph Spencer ▶️communitysignal.com/elon-musks-que…

“I want Elon Musk to spend one day as a frontline production content moderator, and then get back to [us] about how that went. ... Share with us how easy it was to stomach that. Were you able to keep up with the expected pace at Twitter?” –Dr. Sarah T. Roberts [email protected] ▶️communitysignal.com/elon-musks-que…

“Everything [Musk has said about free speech] has had the quality of good bumper stickers but is totally divorced from reality, and that doesn’t bode well, obviously.” –Omar Wasow | @[email protected] ▶️communitysignal.com/elon-musks-que…

If you've listened to our most recent episode, you'll know that it was Carol Benovic-Bradley's last as our editorial lead, after 5 years in that role. Thank you to Carol for all of the amazing contributions that you have made to the program. Your voice will be missed.

“One thing that we are seeing in real-time [at Twitter] is what a danger there is in ... one very privileged individual’s ability to be the arbiter of … these profoundly contested ideological notions of something like free speech.” –Dr. Sarah T. Roberts [email protected] ▶️communitysignal.com/elon-musks-que…

“[Musk is] running around tweeting that [false] story about Nancy Pelosi’s husband. ... What kind of example is that to set? … What it is to me is like this kid who has way too much money, and he found a new toy he wants to play with.” –Ralph Spencer ▶️communitysignal.com/elon-musks-que…

“[If you’re running a site like Twitter,] ... you really have to be comfortable with a thousand voices flourishing, a lot of them being critical of you, and that’s not something that you take personally.” –Omar Wasow | @[email protected] ▶️communitysignal.com/elon-musks-que…

“When you declare that your product, your site, your platform, your service is a free speech zone, there is always going to be a limit on that speech. … Then we have to ask, well, what are the limits, and who do they serve?” –Dr. Sarah T. Roberts [email protected] ▶️communitysignal.com/elon-musks-que…

“When I hear people invoke free speech on a for-profit social media site, not only does that not exist today, it never has existed, and it never will exist. Let’s deal with what reality is actually giving us.” –Dr. Sarah T. Roberts [email protected] ▶️communitysignal.com/elon-musks-que…

“[Elon Musk's] perspective is distorted in a way partly by the investment around him but partly also by just being so way out of proportion to almost any other human on Earth.” –Omar Wasow | @[email protected] ▶️communitysignal.com/elon-musks-que…

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