We need to stop talking about post-moderation. That is not the solution. In this age of rapid distribution of things online, expecting platform users to report abuses after they see them isn't going to work. The cat will be out of the bag and potential harm done... and shared widely.
We need to instead put tools in place to stop things before they are posted.
"Your post may be seen as a personal attack, do you still want to submit?" If they still wish to post, it then goes to a mod queue.
"Your post contains profanity, which is not allowed in our community. Please edit your post and re-submit."
Change user behavior before we have to deal with things out in the wild.
First, let me say that I'm no fan of cheating. I've worked the gaming industry and passed out my fair share of bans for people cheating in the games we managed.
I thought the Galoob v. Nintendo ruling pretty much made it [erfectly legal to use cheats. "the altered game content did not constitute the creation of a derivative work". Even the video of him telling everyone where to get the cheat and how to use them is no different than the GameGenie adverts and cheat codes in magazines at the time. Assuming he didn't use in-game video, which they could put a copyright strike on, he shouldn't have received the DCMA strike and was in the right for fighting it. Again, they absolutely have the right to DCMA any content showing their game, but if he didn't they have no legal standing.
Ass backwards
We need to instead put tools in place to stop things before they are posted.
"Your post may be seen as a personal attack, do you still want to submit?" If they still wish to post, it then goes to a mod queue.
"Your post contains profanity, which is not allowed in our community. Please edit your post and re-submit."
Change user behavior before we have to deal with things out in the wild.
Galoob v. Nintendo
I thought the Galoob v. Nintendo ruling pretty much made it [erfectly legal to use cheats. "the altered game content did not constitute the creation of a derivative work". Even the video of him telling everyone where to get the cheat and how to use them is no different than the GameGenie adverts and cheat codes in magazines at the time. Assuming he didn't use in-game video, which they could put a copyright strike on, he shouldn't have received the DCMA strike and was in the right for fighting it. Again, they absolutely have the right to DCMA any content showing their game, but if he didn't they have no legal standing.
This is an internal problem not a legal one.
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